Designing a Bank

Your architect company, (Insert Company Name Here),  just received the project of designing and a new city bank. The bank is not a national bank, but a smaller town savings bank. The bank will hold all of the town citizens’ savings so it will need a few things. It will need a front counter for basic bank functions, a safe room, public necessities, and a safety deposit box room. The room will also require a vault door and the counters will need ¾ of the open space to be covered with bulletproof glass. Design the counters, structure, and dimensions to create this bank.

You and your team will be designing a bank. Get an overall idea of what the bank will look like.  Throughout the designing process, you will be factoring in the measurements of such rooms as: The vault, safety deposit boxes, and the lobby. Separate offices for clientell meetings are optional, though an employee break room is required. A parking lot surrounding the premises will be needed, along with certain distances from the road.

The bank you will be working on is a perfect square. Step 1 Find the measurements based off the variables given. Once you have the perimeter and area, you will need to find the area and perimeter of the parking lot, being an enlargement by a scale factor of 2. You will need to figure out how to find out what’s left of the area, after that of the bank is taken out, be sure to remember the perimeter.  If a customer walks through the doors, they will see offices on either side of them. rectangle ABCD is congruent to rectangle EFGH, The diagonals are given, but you must find the rest of the of the measurements.  Once inside, you will walk 2/3 of the area until you reach the counter, where the length stretches from wall to wall. Behind the counter, there’s 2 doors. A vault, and a safety deposit room. The vault itself is only 1/3 the length of the wall deep. The door, a circle, must have a definitive area and circumference, meaning round to the nearest tenth. A saftey deposit box room, only ¼ the length of the wall. 

Geometry is used in everyday life and is very resourceful. without things such as: area, perimeter, circumference, scale factors, and fractions, we wouldn’t be able to design the buildings that we have today. Without the basic understanding of things such as shapes, we wouldn’t have buildings at all.

The three people working on this project are Jordan Stark, Brady Quint, and Joseph Gartner. We all go to Flagler Palm Coast High School, and we are also all sophomores.

The reason we decided to do this project was because the idea seemed to be a good one when we came up with it, and although one of our groupmates (Brady) wanted to change everything to rob the bank, rather than design it, Jordan and myself agreed that that just didn’t seem very practical Therefore we decided to keep the original plan of just designing the bank.