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.