2.0 Soane’s Cabins
21/09/15 - 09/11/15 2.1 Brief
The trustees of the John Soane Museum have decided to hold a three day party to celebrate the 190th anniversary of the arrival of the sarcophagus. The party will start on 23rd March 2016. Numerous luminaries from contemporary arts, politics and media culture have been invited. You have been commissioned to design a spatial intervention that will accommodate two of these individuals at a specific location within the building.
2.2 Requirements
Your design must be carefully tuned to what is available at your location and should be tailored to your specific occupant to provide them with everything that they will require during the duration of the party. It must provide a degree of privacy and enclosure but should allow ready access or egress as well. A secondary section of the proposal must also be refined into a portable device that can be deployed to multiple locations elsewhere in the museum. Here it should be able to perform a useful function for a larger group.
2.3 Outcomes
The ability to demonstrate specific research skills and interests, to record site observations and translate these to meaningful design constraints, criteria and opportunities The ability to rapidly develop iterative proposals in response to a contextual brief and resolve them with detailed drawing and representational techniques into a complex material and spatial proposal. The development of physical collage and model making skills alongside knowledge of layout, presentation and review methods. [continued...] UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // BA Interior Architecture & Design // Stage 3 // 2015-2016