1.2 Sci-Fi Vernaculars 01 Inside/ Out Phase 1 Portfolio
Projects 03: CIAD5001 18/09/17- 13/12/17 1.2.1 Brief
Phase 1: We will be building a geodesic dome on the quad at UCA. The first project is a combination of group work, a live build project and also individual design outcomes. You will, as a team, and with other students, fabricate and assemble a large installation in the quad on the Canterbury campus of the university.
1.2.3 Assessment
The full unit will be assessed in a final portfolio submission in the form of a completed project output. Portfolios should demonstrate exemplar ordering and presentation of your individual work. They will be based upon completion of all components and all phases outlined in this and all subsequent briefs. Assessment will be based upon criteria that are mapped to the learning outcomes itemised overleaf. It is worth noting that the learning outcomes also include the 1:1 live build, so perfomance during this period is also very important.
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2017-18
1.2.4 Unit Str ucture
Course: Stage Two 2016/17 BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design Units: CIAD5011 // Projects 03 Credits: 30 Duration: Term 1 // Weeks 01-13 -Term 1, Weeks 1-7: Inside/Out Phase 1 Design and build of a pavillion on the lawn in the quad of UCA, cummulating in an event inside the pavillion to celebrate the passing of autum and coming of winter to UCA. -Term 1 Weeks 1-13: Inside/Out Phase 2. The building process will be followed by the development of individual design responses to the built outcome. The effective implementation of interior architecture and design projects requires a set of skills and knowledge that are best acquired by direct engagement with the methods and processes of production. Interiors practitioners typically establish a range of close collaborations with skilled fabricators, craftsmen and makers and need to have the expertise to coordinate these relationships to ensure the delivery of complex and wellcrafted projects. This unit is focused on developing students’ knowledge and understanding of materials and fabrication processes through the design, representation, construction and installation of a 1:1 element in a site specific location. Through the development of this unit, students are required to consider how interior architecture and design intervention can become a mediator between user and context, altering the perception and experience of a space. The unit syllabus will cover: 1. The acquisition of knowledge and skills relating to materials, details and assembly methods, analogue and digital prototyping and fabrication; 2. Design concept generation through collaborative and individual working; Design proposal development through iterative investigations in 2D and 3D at varying scales; Design proposal resolution and representation to industry standards; Fabrication of a 1:1 intervention which responds to material and contextual constraints, shared group and individual objectives and user experience; Representation of design ambitions and fabricated outcomes including inhabitation, user interactions and spatial and material qualities. Alongside lectures, tutorials and workshops led by design tutors, this unit includes a series of technology, fabrication and communication lectures and workshops delivered by subject leaders and specialist staff. These will introduce processes, materials, digital modes of design, digital prototyping and fabrication.
Owain Caruana-Davies at LT Ranch Space, 2016 (photo 2017)
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2017-18
1.2.5 Deliverables
The following are minimum deliverable requirements for completion of phase 1 of the project. There will be a set of deliverables for Phase 2 of the project which will be introduced after the review Thursday 9/11. A printed, bound, professionally presentable design diary. This needs to be marked clearly with your day to day documentation of the build progress and your individual design project. You might find it helpful to create a blog to help you record and accumulate information on your documentaion. This in particular would help you with your initial research project i] Photographic documentaion ii) Film documentaion (your diary could contain stills where a blog can have the video) ii] Precedent research, properly referenced. iv) Planning information of the build process v) precedent and historic information vi) structural information vii) Infomation explaining the developiment of the dome design from model to built work viii] Documentation of the inhabitation of the installation: how do people inhabit the space? This is really important, it happens after the build and proves you continue to be interested in the space after it has been constructed.
A printed A2 portfolio containing the following:
1. Research about geodesic domes, historic development and uses. 2. Sketches and first undersandings of the dome 3. Presented documentation of the build process 4. CAD drawing of pland sections and elevation of the dome at 1:100: in the context of the school spaces. 5. Details pf junctions and connections at 1:5 6. Rhino renders of the dome 7. !:00 axonometric drawing showing the construction process of the build 8. Photgraphs of the space in use, detail, action, exterior and interior. 9. CAD section at 1:50 showing intense inhabitation and use. (see 3rd year architecture show work for inspiration here) 10. 1:50 plan of the dome showing inhabitation and use, CAD textures, fills and planting on the lawn. How can you include colour here?
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2017-18
1.2.6 Blog
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UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2017-18
Three hurricanes in the Atlantic, September 2017, The Atlantic.com
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2017-18
1.2.7 Portfolio
Your portfolio is a document which can support constant addition and should be a document you set up at the beginning of the project and develop until the hand in. If you make some good decisions early on the term, you can set up a format which you can add to and tweak with confidence leading up to your hand in, adding drawings as you go. Your portfolio is a place where you clarify your concepts, present edited selections of crucial precedents, demonstrate the breadth and depth of your research information, diagramming, analysis and speculation in your design. This development work is really important alongside the inclusion of your final design drawings, renders and model documentation. It needs to be presented to the highest possible level of precision and refinement in terms of the graphic management and it is often an idea to test print parts to make sure there are no nasty surprises when the whole document gets printed. We advise you to an A2 Archival Box. 50mm deep from Seawhites or similar. You will be producing 2 portfolios, so the box can be submitted and returned with each portfolio. This means you will have a box which can hold all of your paper produced work for the year.
1.2.8 Staff
This learning stream will be delivered by Lucy Jones, Year Convener for the Interior Architecture and Design Stage 2 and visiting tutors.
1.2.9 Assessment
Completion of this learning stream contributes to the passing of the Projects 03 unit, CIAD 5011. Submission is via portfolio on Wednesday December 13th, between 15:00 and 16:00.
Three hurricanes in the Atlantic, September 2017, The Atlantic.com
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2017-18
1.2.10 Aims
The aims of this unit are: A1 to provide knowledge of materials and analogue and digital modes of fabrication utilised in the production of small and medium scale interiors projects; A2 to develop an understanding of the qualities, potentials and implications related to the use of specific materials, relevant manufacturing and construction processes through direct engagement and experimentation. A3 To instil competence with relevant design tools and contemporary fabrication processes that would enable the implementation of suitable interior architecture anddesign proposals; A4 to introduce the specific forms of communication utilised in collaborative design and fabrication processes including detailed design drawings and specifications.
1.2.10 Lear ning Outcomes
On satisfactory completion of the unit you will be able to: LO1 Demonstrate knowledge of materials, details and assembly methods involved in the analogue and digital modes of fabrication of interior architecture and design projects. (A1) LO2 Demonstrate a clear understanding of the qualities, potentials and implications related to the use of specific materials, relevant manufacturing and construction processes.(A2) LO3 Investigate, experiment, develop and fabricate ambitious and considered 1:1 scale design installations that respond to material and contextual constraints and meet the needs of the brief and intended users. (A3) LO4 Represent design development and specific information that effectively communicates design ambition to industry standards. (A4)
Alan Wor n, Blue Square Front, 2011
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2017-18