3.1 Appraisal & Ideas
12/11/15 - 15/03/16 3.1.1 Aims
Stage 1 of the MPA project will require you to complete an intensive series of investigations in order to establish individual project briefs. These must reflect the aims of MPA and identify a series of characters drawn from the EDUCATE-EXPRESS-ENGAGE communities. By the completion of Stage 1 you must be able to clearly present a set of outline designs for realisation of cross programmatic modifications to the proposed site. The narrative and operation of these must satisfy specific requirements of your defined characters. Describe a set of clear decisions in the selection, refinement and solution of these needs within an overall spatial plan for the building. Both your research conclusions and design proposals must be disseminated visually and to a high quality at the end of stage review. Iterative physical and computer models should be used to demonstrate testing and exploration of potential massing, materials and scales. Additionally you will need plan, section and elevation drawings that itemise your outline scheme into clear intervention elements.
3.1.2 Outcomes
Identification, justification and brief based itemisation of idiosyncratic communities and activities appropriate to MPA’s agenda within the wider context of Woolwich Arsenal and the Royal Borough of Greenwich. A clear cross-programmatic strategy for the functional, commercial and branding operation of the MPA building to satisfy the above
3.1.3 Assessment criteria
Ability to formulate a project proposal that is clearly grounded in research of the contextual issues relating to the site and the client. [continued...] UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // BA Interior Architecture & Design // Stage 3 // 2015-2016
3.1.4 Duration
Stage 1 will run during Term 1, from Week 08 until Week 12 inclusively 12/11/2015: Site Visit and Client Meeting 16/11/2015: Formal Stage Introduction 10/12/2015: Main Project Formative Review 01 (end of Stage 1)
3.1.5 Deliverables
Diary (a first collation of information at a minimum of four A5 pages per day) i) Detailed and precise drawn site records of location (plans, sections, elevations, details of frames, balustrades, columns, doors or furniture) ii) collated other site evidence and precedent studies (photographs, postcards, artwork, stickers, tickets) iii) collated press/other information on specific target communities iv) outline design sketches, screenshots, test model photos (recorded daily) Strategic v) 1 A2 page to demonstrate individually selected understanding of the background, activities, branding and agenda of the MPA programme and the history of the Woolwich Arsenal context. vi) 1 A2 page of visual identification of specific characteristics, caricatures, activities and needs of the three communities (Educate-Express-Engage). vii) 1 A2 page of visual identification of specific programmatic insertions proposed to service above community characters, including scale metric research data. viii) A2 1:500 overall context plan drawn in CAD ix) Collated and presented CAD drawings (plans, sections, elevations) of the existing building at 1:100 scale - correctly titled and annotated including section lines - keyed to identify areas of individual focus and interest - used to map potential deployment or movement of communities x) One brief concept design summary paragraph Presentational xi) Complete A2 set of 1:100 outline proposal drawings, fully annotated and non model generated (including drawn occupation): plans x 3 sections x 2 elevations x2 xii) A minimum of three test hand made physical models xiii) Single A2 sheet presenting a series of 3D cad based iterative massing studies as an investigative process testing insertion and relations to existing fabric. xiv) A2 initial 3D collage layered perspective line drawing providing a view of the existing site with an aspirational approach to the materiality or light qualities of an insertion against, through or modification to the existing building fabric
[ends] UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // BA Interior Architecture & Design // Stage 3 // 2015-2016