Hahn work at Val Reiss Gymnasium spotlighted by Draper

It’s easy to think of a gymnasium as a boring, blah kind of place. Boxy, cavernous, and windowless.

But the modern athletic facility is anything but boring. Each has unique features and designs and needs to be approached as a custom project.

Here are four gymnasium designs brought to life with a little help from Draper:

Val Riess
This project was challenging because there were HVAC ducts, light bars, deep trusses, truss splice plates, and a steep slope leading to some high attachment points. Our design team had to get very creative and use several different clamps and fittings, and design cradles as tall as 18 feet to work around a lot of obstructions. Despite the high attachment points, the basketball backstops do not have any vibration issues. Draper uses all 4” OD tubing in overhead structure keeping the backstops stable even under such challenging conditions.

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