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.