3.3 Technical Design

3.3 Technical Design

28/01/16 - 11/02/16 3.3.1 Aims

Stage 3 of the MPA project involves the complete technical resolution of a focus element of your design in a manner that is appropriate to your identified programmatic functions.

In the process of resolving this you must address its material layering, its construction and how it may be fabricated in a suitably economic process. The selected methods may introduce elements of modularity, systemic approaches, advanced digital techniques, traditional crafts and local or specialist fabricators but must be rigorously and convincingly assimilated.

By the completion of Stage 3 you must have a clear set of drawings that apply these researched productive techniques across the entirety of your chosen focus element in a complete and coherent manner. You must additionally communicate visually how these technical decisions directly affect or re-inform the fabrication, insertion,, deployment and functional use of your interventions across the entire scheme.

3.3.2 Outcomes

A clear cross-programmatic strategy for the functional, commercial and branding operation of MPA and their building to satisfy the identified communities and character needs

Three fully designed and detailed spatial insertions into or adaptations of MPA’s existing building on Thomas Street that facilitate the above

3.3.3 Assessment criteria

Ability to coordinate the various cultural, technological, social and formal considerations in the production of a complex interior design project Quality of visual, verbal and other communicative methods and techniques and their appropriateness to the project aims and the audiences that it seeks to address.

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UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // BA Interior Architecture & Design // Stage 3 // 2015-2016

3.3.4 Duration

Stage 3 will run during Term 2, from Week 04 until Week 06 inclusively 28/01/2016: Stage 3 introduction 01-04/02/2016: Field Trip to Seville 11/02/2016: Main Project Formative Review 03 (review of Stage 3)

3.3.5 Deliverables

Diary (a collation of information at a minimum of four A5 pages per day) i) All previous diary requirements now collated to a high presentational level ii) further intensive investigation of material precedents, construction methods and potential appropriate local fabricators iii) speculative technical sketches, screenshots, test model photos (recorded daily) Strategic iv) All previous Stage 1 & 2 contextual deliverables completed as follows:

1 A2 page focussing on MPA agenda and context

1 A2 page on selected Educate-Express-Engage characters

1 A2 page of visually presented programmatic requirement data

1 A2 CAD context plan at 1:500

Updated GA drawings set at 1:100 v) A2 detailed presentation quality axonometric or isometric drawing that diagrammatically identifies the programmatic and functional zoning of your proposals relative to the existing building vi) A project synopsis of between 500-1000 words that expands upon your previous design summaries.

Presentational vii) Finalised CAD 1:20 section through the existing building and your proposals. The drawing should include appropriate visual descriptions of your structural, lighting and deployability strategies as well as function and use. viii) A plan for a sequence of 1:1 prototypes that investigate and demonstrate refinement of the fabrication methods, joints, components, modularity, finishing techniques and other options that you consider appropriate for one element of your proposals ix) A2 draft exploded axonometric or isometric drawing of the above x) A2 Final render/perspective line drawing series providing a sequence of views of the proposals within the existing site with an technically finalised representation of the materiality and or light qualities of your insertions in use. xi) A further refined A2 size final 3D collage layered drawing construction xii) Any previous presentation work still deemed appropriate and useful

[ends] UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // BA Interior Architecture & Design // Stage 3 // 2015-2016