Week10 Task - Siting and Additional Format. Draft Outputs

Task In Studio

1) Spend no more than one(1) hour to create an expressive montage of your envisioned strategies to site your building, keeping in mind that we are not creating standalone buildings that float in mid air or on a sheet of flat plane. Use the inspirations shown from past students work in today's lecture to think about how siting can work in tandem with your building and exaggerate the conceptual standpoint of your design. You may use all mediums at your disposal (photographs, hand sketches, etc) in order to produce a landscape montage that best encapsulate the type of environment and site strategies you are aiming to explore.

2) By now you should have a firm idea in the type of architecture you are envisioning. Begin to develop your written or visual brief - the type of spaces you are creating, the types of user groups that are going to use your architecture, and any other information to form a well rounded summary of the architecture that you are creating.

3) Begin to postulate on your "additional representation techique". Write a synopsis that summarises your proposal for using this technology, justifying how it will challenge the design and representation of your architecture, and providing examples. Focus on the "why" of your choice, the benefits that you perceive the technology can bring to your project, the way in which this technology would engage with the design/decision making process compared with non-digital techniques (think back to last weeks lecture!!!!!).

Independent Task

1) Work and blog towards a completed and modelled draft of your architecture.

2) Create a draft representation of your architecture using the "additional representation technique" prescribed in the brief (Interactive environments, Augmented Reality, 3d printing/laser cutting, or interactive web interface). I encourage those aiming to engage with 3d printing/laser cutting to send a draft prototype or a segment of your design to print;- that way you can know sooner rather than later whether or not you are comfortable with this technology.

Week 09 Task - Design Development

Task For Studio 

1) Get your Precedent Study/Design Proposal marked off by your tutor.

2) Position yourselves into groups of 3. You will be presenting your precedent study and preliminary concept design to each other within your group. You will organise yourselves to do this amongst your group before your tutor comes to see you. Recount to your group all aspects of your Precedent Study/Design Proposal so your group members will have a clear idea of the processes, outcomes and design decisions you have made from Week01 up until now. Discuss.

3) Continue with your concept design and incorporate both internal and external environments. Move back and forth between the hand sketch and digital modelling as you continue to develop further ideas in creating your new design.

4) Your tutors will come around and provide feedback within your group. During this time your tutor will ask for a critic's comment from each of your group members.

Independent Study

1) Continue to develop your design into a draft for discussion next week. Work from all the resources you have accumulated thus far: the nature of your original nominated architect and building, your concept model as a set of instructions, your precedents as two examples how the concept has been re-interpreted, and your new design proposal.

2) Demonstrate that you can embed an interactive 3d model into a pdf. Place your Draft 3D design into a pdf using the techniques shown in the lectures. Use this technology to complement your design - incorporate bookmarks to views, judiciously create your own views that would illustrate your building in the best light.

Lecture Attendance for Week09

Due to poor attendance recorded for the last two lectures, Week06 and Week08 lectures will not be made available on the blackboard.

Having said that, I will be showing a one off demonstration on creating live 3d models in Adobe PDFS during the next lecture. Those who would like to know how to meet this requirement for Project 2 as well as the technologies involved will need to come to the lectures this week in order to find out. No further demonstrations will be made during studio time.

Week07 Task: Establishing the basis for a concept design

Task for today:

Finalise the following:

1) You choice of two precedents, built or unbuilt. One is from your nominated architect from Project 1 and another one of your own choosing.

2) Begin a first draft of your design brief by identifying a list of building function/programme to pursue. The choice should be driven by the opportunities it would give in challenging your concepts from Project 1. It should also be different to the function of your nominated building in Project 1 (ie for Eisenman's House students, pick something else apart from residential houses). 

3) Your tutors will come around and give you guidance on how successful your precedents were paired within your conceptual framework, your choice of building programme, and strategies in which forms, concepts, and programme can come together.

4) As part of your submission requirements for next week, begin to develop your design. Use the inspirations from week 6 lecture and the resources you all have at your disposal in order to go about at this. You may jump straight into modelling and manipulating your Project 1 concept model, or model and manipulate different aspects of your precedents and Project 1 building as an experimental base. You may start with basic hand sketching of ideas and combine them with a montage of different segments of your architectural, material, and spatial inspirations as well as key assemblies in your Project 1 concept model. The key is to develop your own working method in order to arrive at (and communicate with clarity) a preliminary concept design. 

Independent Task:

1) Finalise all outcomes for Precedent Study and Design Proposal, due 21st September 10am.

2) Be prepared to come into class and discuss your proposal amongst your peers.