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Past Courses: Spring 2017
Water, Food, Earth, Energy, Materials and Reuse, Community
Grading
Schematic Design
Week 1 – Brainstorming of design breif + Creating database of information of Materials + Presenting design ideas + Assigning roles and responsibilities.
Bring to the table in class the following individually
- A 10 min presentation about your assigned material/constructive system. (4 marks)
- Be prepared for a class discussion on setting a design breif
- Bring certain ideas that you would like to explore through sketches, images, or built examples.
Week 2 – Presenting designs and selecting collaborative approach
Bring to the table in class your individual design, well presented with sufficient details to communicate the following using sketches. You shall upload them as a pdf here. (2 Marks)
- Design considerations (requirements you have considered)
- Philosophy and Constructive system
- Materials used and approximate cost of construction.
Project Development + Documentation
Week 3 – Individual design presentations
For those who missed the previous class . Design ideas are summaried from the class are noted. Class to place your images from the internet here. A pinterest page that can help you is here
Bring to class a final presentation of your refined design on a 4-A3 size pages or one board of 60×90. Requirements (6 Marks)
- Drawings to scale. Include full design of structure, seating and the shading strategy used – on A3 size hand drawn or Printed.
- Photos or Sketches to explain fabrication, unions and joints – Printed or drawn Paper. – on A3 size hand drawn or Printed
- Detailed list of materials and Cost of materials – Printed on Paper. – on A3 size Printed.
- A model to scale, sufficient to communicate design.
Week 4 – Participation in the facebook online forum
- A number of constructive systems are presented on the forum. You are to express your opinions (pros and cons) for each of the system, with your reasoning.
- You are to be clear and objective in your opinions. Refrain from expressing whims and personal choices without reason.
- You are allowed to add a new constructive system.
- The forum closes on Start of Week 5.
- We arrive to class to develop a collective design based on the prefered constructive system.
Week 6 – Details, Costing, Resource finding, optimizing the design
With your roles assigned, develop your assigned task to present to class.