3.4 Specialist Design

3.4 Specialist Design

15/02/16 - 15/03/16 3.4.1 Aims

Stage 4 of the MPA project covers the final weeks up until your final review on 19/03/2015.

During it you must complete a professional quality presentation that communicates your proposals to their full extent and at a comprehensive level of detail. In the process of finalising such work you must further consider the branding, commercial and community character of your proposals relative to the MPA mission statement.

A successful final presentation would convincingly describe, in full; site context; original personal brief; selected communities and the subsequent resulting functions addressed; your design processes and iterations; the resulting technical and programmatic integration of the scheme; the spatial experience and functional operations created and finally an overall branding and scheme identity.

A series of 1:1 scale prototypes must be constructed and evidentially recorded to describe a experimental process that has led to a final outcome. Your presentation should also include a final, high quality, presentation prototype and 3D layered drawing.

3.4.2 Outcomes

A fully designed and detailed spatial insertion into or adaptation of MPA’s existing building on Thomas Street, that facilitates the established programmes.

A series of high quality physical prototype test pieces that demonstrate iterative design failure and improvement of a key element of the above

3.4.3 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.

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. [continued...]

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

3.4.4 Duration

Stage 4 will run during Term 2, from Week 07 until Week 10 inclusively 15/02/2015: Stage 4 introduction & structures workshop 18/02/2015: Final Workshop on Axonometrics 22/03/2015: Final Workshop on 3D Collages 29/03/2015: Final Workshop on Elements 15/03/2015: Main Project Final Review (end of Stage 4)

3.4.5 Deliverables

Diary (a final 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) exploration of branding and identity for your MPA proposals iii) final model design sketches, screenshots, fabrication 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 on A2 sheets

Initial programmatic diagrams revised and updated to explain final scheme v) A2 communication of an appropriate MPA community and commercial branding strategy or identity applied to the local context. vi) A project synopsis of between 500-1000 words that expands upon your previous design summaries Presentational vii) A final A1, 1:20, technically detailed and spatially descriptive presentation CAD section through the entirety of the existing building and your proposals. viii) 1 A2 final, presentation quality exploded axonometric or isometric drawing of the entirety of your proposals ix) One A1/A2 drawing, annotated, keyed and labelled as appropriate to demonstrate careful design and planning of one element of your insertion proposals. This is recommended (but not mandated) to be an exploded axonometric drawing and should give clear description of the material and functional properties of the element. x) A high quality built prototype (and appropriate test and development pieces) of all or part of the above. xi) A series of presentation quality A3 perspective views to convey a clear sense of identity and spatial experience xii) An exhibit quality A2 size final 3D collage layered drawing construction xiii) Any previous presentation work still deemed appropriate and useful

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