Homecoming Layout

Background

Around the time of this project, our school was preparing itself for the annual Homecoming dance. The STEM students were asked to think of a creative theme for the dance as well as draw out blueprints as to how this design would work. This project incorporated elements of metric measurements, metric conversion, scaling, and using an architectural scale in order to draw out scaled blueprints.

Tools

An architectural scale is a specialized ruler designed to simplify the drafting and measuring of architectural drawings, in this case floor plans for the gym. Each side of the architectural scale deals with a different scaling measurement.

Drafting

When drafting our blueprints, we all had to follow certain guidelines and regulations. The drawing of the gym had to be in a 1/8 scale and the layout had to have eight food tables, two drink coolers, two drink tables, one photo booth, one photo booth props table, twenty dining tables, and one DJ setup. We then had to create a presentation based upon our Homecoming theme.

We talked about many aspects and designs for the dance. Our theme was Casino because we liked the color scheme and wanted to challenge the school's rules against gambling. We used multiple styles of media, images, and styles in order to get our presentation across.