Football Field Design Analysis

Through the imprinting into popular culture, the idea of the football field has entered the American lexicon to no longer solely represent where one of the more popular sports in the United States is played. The idea of the football field, a 120-yard (360 feet) by 53-yard (160 feet) space has come to represent a unit of comparable scale. Grady Clay describes it as a ‘universal yardstick for describing complex environments,' and provides examples where it has been referenced to in many different scenarios. As architects, the sizing and scale of space or construct are hard to imagine from units of measurement alone for those not well versed in the field. In the American culture, we have developed comparisons to other objects to make the contrast easier to picture, such as using the size of a bus, the height of a notable building, or from this discussion the size of a football field. …show more content…
The designer creates the intended design and projects what the ideal form of the construct will be. The craft of the workman is to interpret the visual and verbal statement and to apply the technique to produce it. Through certainty, operations can be predetermined and are outside the control of the workman once production begins. As the operation progresses, risk begins to be taken into consideration with the craft. The workmanship will always remain an approximation, where the fully dimensioned details are not achievable, purely because all geometric form (both strait and curved) is influenced by a false human perception of reality. Rough work can be refined as a sketch would be, to become more precise and perfected. The designer has to realize the limitations of their design with aesthetics and form, when being applied in the real world, and then crafted by the