4.0 In-habitat
30/05/19 - 03/09/19
Brief
Your year masters here at UCA will cumulate in a final built work which can be virtual or analogue, but is a developed spatial work which is installed in a location around the school which is agreed between the staff and students according to the opportunities and requirements of the project. These installations form the basis of the final examination, internally and externally and are ambitious works which require careful planning and execution. The installations then form part of The UCA MA Summer Show which opens at the end of the course after the internal and external examination process, alongside the other MA courses across the school and is open for a week.
Requirements
Your proposal must be space-making in some way which incudes 1:1 fabrication and extends beyond object and product/furniture to deal with space. What is crucial here is you are working towards presenting your work in an exhibition which is open to the public and forms the most important part of your assessment. So think about what you would like to present in a ‘gallery’ type space and, if your work does not immediately conform to this, how you might solve these challenges of presentation. You will also be showing some of your work on paper in frames, so you can consider what these images might be. You need to maintain your documentation blog recording your experimentation and research. This is alongside the usual portfolio submission and a consise design report and film, which will present your work in a precise and easily understood way.
Outcomes
You will develop your ability to design and deliver a full scale project through the planning and fabrication stage. Your practical work is expected to demonstrate innovation and a high level of skill and execution that directly relates to a student’s research concerns. A coherent relationship between a sophisticated and on-going theoretical enquiry and a well-realised spatial intervention is expected, culminating in professional standard individual contributions to the MA Graduation show, supported by drawn professional level outputs to exhibit alongside your built work.
Rose Leonardi, Transitional Spaces, UCA, 2018
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018-19
Deliverables
The following are minimum deliverable requirements for completion of the project: A 1:1 spatial intervention carefully and professionally fabricated and curated in an exhibition space. Written Report presenting your research project and final realisation in a professional manner according to the provided template. Professional and detailed portfolio of at least 25 pages, including but not limited to: 1. Research diagrams showing context of reseach and development. These need to be well presented and detailed. Your work in the Thesis Review will support this. 2. Installation proposals over time (x3) from 06/06, 01/07 and 15/07 including materials and production list. 3. Site investigation/ material research 4. Detailed drawing of context aspect of the project: what is your ‘site’? 5. Drawing or render explaining proposed interaction and change 6. Design development drawings. 7. Portfolio records of all physical fabrication tests & prototype pieces 8. Portfolio records of any simulation, or digital work 9. Portfolio documentation of construction and construction details 10. Detailed plans, sections and elevations of the built work at 1:5 11. Interactive drawing showing detailed understanding of use, change over time and interactivity or movement. 12. Renders showing your work in appropriate contexts/sites/uses and users (talk this over with your design tutor) Electronic submission: portfolio, framed work, Thesis Review and Report Process blog (link by email to Lucy Jones) Composed film of final installation outcome
Nordic Pavillion, Venice Bienalle, 2018
OMA/AMO Prada Fashion show 2015
MA Grad Show 2017
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018-19
You will be taking part in the yearly Masters Graduate Show at UCA, opening this year on the 23rd of August. The show is the most important moment of the year and it forms the framing context for your final work here for your masters qualification. We have a deadline of the 16/08/19 at 14:00 and then the 19/08/19 an inspection around the spaces to ensure that your project is up and running so we can make a summative assessment on 21/08/19 and you are prepared for the External Examiner visit on the 22/08/19. The public opening is then on the 23/08/19.
Exhibition
1. There are spaces used by the students across the school and historically there have been MA Interior Design and MA Architecture students spread all over the campus, depending on the requirements of the installation and most positive placing of the work. By 06/06/19 you will need to have presented a printed production and materials list and printed A3 drawings of your proposal which highlights the requirements you have for your project so we can discuss the allocation of spaces and also be aware of your technical requirements. You can always discuss this with your design tutor in advance. 2. Risk assessment general exhibition get-in work Lucy to circulate early July. 3. Details for the catalogue, will need to be provided, name, email, website/blog address. Images for the catalogue, these are usually 300dpi, 250Ă—250mm dimension maximally, but can vary slightly year on year. Please be aware of emails which specify these details. You are allowed a small space in th catalogue for free, if you would like more, you can pay a ÂŁ25 suppliment for extra pages. You also get a free copy of the catalogue. 4.Framed work. There is generally opportunity for some framed work to accompany your final built outcome. You can include drawn work which can describe the interactivity of your piece, or possibly the work you have made in an imagined built environment. You might include information and images from off-site installation work you have done, site images, process work, photographs or diagrams. This is a carefully curated moment so make sure you are able to print images up to A1 size of what you are planning. Sometimes you might need to do a test print and you will definitely have to check your proposed images with your tutor and possibly do some revision work to get this right. UCA can sign out a certain number of frames per student.
Assessment week: what to expect
What is the Internal Examination? This is an important day of assessment. We will be walking around the site visiting you at your piece, where you will need to present your work formally to us from first principles and demonstrate that it works, or you can present a video of the installation working. We use this to make sure we have understood your piece and to make an assessment of your grade. What is the External Examination? You will remember the interim visit. This time the session will be on a sample basis so not all of you will need to see the external examiner. We will let you know in good time if you will be seeing the examiner and very soon after the internal examination session is typically a 20 minute interview with your portfolio and your final built work. This may have to be managed if your work is in a location which cannot support portfolio review, for exam-ple if your work is outdoors on the lawn. Typically you need to think about a temporary table to show your
Show invite 2018
MA Grad Show Opening 2015
MA Grad Show 2017
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018-19
Opening the show!
This is the cool bit! You have finished and now its time to let your hair down and enjoy your achievement with your friends and collegues. The opening this year is from 4pm 8pm on August 23rd.
Invigilation
There is a need for invigilation during the show, which lasts typically from Friday to Friday the last week of August. The exhibition is generally open be-tween 10 and 5 so the day is split into two with two students per slot. We will issue a timetable later by MyUCA.
Show take down
You are generally expected to take down your work, or have it ar-ranged to be taken down within a week of the closing of the exhibition. We will let you know if we would like you to keep your work up, sometimes if its in the right place, we leave it up for the next set up students to see.
Over the summer there is a reduced technical provision across all the spaces of the Workshop and technician Resources school. This is understood as the are less students in the school at this time so a fraction of the week availability is accepted on this basis. There is also annual leave to be taken into account. Communication of availability of the school resources is our main priority so you are able to effectively manage your time towards the final examination period, but this is a factor you will have to accomodate into your planning.
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Notes: 1. CNC requirements. Needs to be specifically communicated to us as we only have a two week window to get this co-ordinated, probaby in late July.
Parker Heyl, UCL, 2018
MA Grad Show 2017
Upside Down Mushroom Room, Carsten Holler , 2000
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018-19
Project information: for June 6 with Lucy and revised to be up to date afterwards
1. Risk Assessment individual work:Please see issued form. 2. Production/ materials list: This is a short spreadsheet detaling: 1. The materials you will need to buy, especially wood because you may need to discuss this with the workshop and they need written information. 2. The space requirements, the frames you are considering, the light sources you might need, if the space is dark or light, power, water, ventilation. What is this for? 1. So we can communicate with the workshop in terms of wood you might need to buy. 2. So we can help you with your budgeting. 3. So we can understand how ambitious/realistic you are being in terms of equipment 4. so we can help match the right people to the right spaces 5. We can get an idea if we need to manage the available AV equipment. E.g. if 20 people want to get out projectors we will need to manage it. 6. So we can get an idea of frames for each project. The workshop can order timber for you from Timberite (see price list)Screwfix, Toolstation and B and Q are places you might become more familiar with Warning: don’t rely on overseas orders with long lead times. It might not be the right thing! 3. Proposal drawings. Dimensioned drawings on A3 layouts with proposals detailed. Include plan, section, elevation, possibly computer model and details. What is this for? 1. So we can understand your proposal! 2. So we can discuss where your proposal is located with the curatorial team ( Well drawn and ambitous proposals have better spaces!) 3. So you can visualise and develop your work.
Production List Name PC
Quantity
Information 1 waiting for reassemble at KIRK lecture theatre
HTC vive VR equipment
1 waiting for reassemble at KIRK lecture theatre
Power Extension Cables
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Projectors VGA/HDMI Cables Webcam Wooden Sticks White Cotton Fibre White Foam Boards
2 need to be set from the ceiling of KIRK got from Amazon 1 got from Amazon got from eBay 1m*10m, got from eBay
Jingyan He (Aesa)
MA Grad Show 2018
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018-19
Report and Professional development
An important part of your assessment is the Written Report presenting your research project and final realisation in a professional manner according to a common template. You have already been briefed on this report and its rescribed format. Try to make sure you accurately portray your design work in this documnt, its an important aspect of the unit, and is a very useful document summarising the enormous amount of work you have done here at UCA. Please see History and Theory Brief for more details. 1. Report: 20% of final unit: assessed element. Tutorials Academic support workshop 2. Professional profile Workshops with careers advisers CV preparation Linkedin and social media 3. Prepared for work 1:1 sessions with careers advisers Looking for work Career plans
Process Blog
Your blog will become more and more important in the documentation of your project as you spend an acellerating amount of time in the physiclal making of your work. Please make sure it is foramtted in an approriate and user-friendly style and available to present your project and its latest developments at any one time. You can take videos on your phone, photographs, type reflective prose, post links, events and precedents to help you. They will be forwarded to the external examiners in preparation for their final visit, so its in your interests to make a good impression!
Film
The film is a very important part of the submission. The most effective way in which you can communicate the ambition, energy and scope of your constructed outcomes is by film, this will be helpful in applicatins and interviews moving forward. We have delayed the submssion of the film until you have practically completed your installations so that you can capture the space at its most completed. Please be aware of the power of music and accept that you may not be able to put your favourite pop track over the film. Subtle or not at all and often purposeful ambient sounds are also great. You may have found with the previous submission that the filkmmaking process can be time consuming and tricky. If you need help, Katerina Sengstaken is available after the end of July for any questions you might have, she can be found in the main block near the print bureau.
Documentation
Please carefully document your work. For many of you when the show comes down, the installation is no longer a viable piece of work, and some of you will be traveling home to other parts of the world. It is therefore of utmost importance for your portfolio and other CV materials that you effectively document your work while it is up. As a department we welcome you sending us your documentation to add to the archive alongside out documentation materials. Another note regarding your documentation, use the right camera! It really does matter that you get a camera and tripod from the store. Its very obvious when you are using your phone and whilst that is ok for your process blog, its not ok to make your work look good in your portfolio. Think carefully about lighting and background. Again, if you have any questions, ask Kat.
MA Grad Show 2018
MA Grad Show 2018
The Team
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018-19
Staff/Guests
The project will be run by Lucy Jones (MA Course Leader) and assisted by Owain Caruana-Davies, and Marguerite Tricauld visiting design tutors. JJ Brophy is also a crucial membr of staff who can help you with technical questions regardng your project. Simon Mitchell and Ben Westacott, departmental technicians are also avaliable for support.
Assessment
Completion of the Habitat project will contribute 100% of the grade for the MA Interior Design ‘Final Realisation’ unit (CIND 7013) and the MA Architecture ‘Final Realisation’ unit (CARC 7005). Both units are valued at 60 credits. Assessment will be carried out at the point of submission via a final A2 paper portfolio and completed prototypes or models and written report. Final installation outcomes will be reviewed with the external examiners. Feedback will be verbal and written at formative stages and written at the summative stage for this project.
Learning Aims
The aims of this unit are: A1 Consolidate and realise the MA project both practically and theoretically A2 Analyse, evaluate and showcase your personal creative approach to research A3 Establish rigorous, in-depth technical and delivery skills through the realisation of a major built project at post graduate level A4 Refine concepts and ideas that respond to research, critical, practical and professional contexts A5 Encourage and support the dissemination of research outcomes in appropriate professional and/or public contexts.
Learning Outcomes
On satisfactory completion of the unit you will be able to: LO1 Present a critical, rigorous, coherent and resolved independent research project, which fully integrates theory and practice LO2 Expound a rigorous, complex understanding of your MA project, through and including continuing critical evaluation, self-reflection and future development aims LO3 Demonstrate an advanced knowledge and use of materials, processes, technical skills, formal refinements and fabrication methods to a professional standard LO4 Deploy strong communication and presentation skills to facilitate the structured evaluation and dissemination of your work in appropriate research contexts LO5 Situate your creative practice within appropriate future public/professional contexts LO6 Demonstrate the ability to work independently, set goals, manage workloads, meet deadlines and confidently contribute to critical evaluations of design outcomes.
MA Show 2018
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018-19
Reading list
Bruno, G. (2007) Public intimacy: architecture and the visual arts. In: Writing architecture series. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Cook, P. (2014) Drawing: the motive force of architecture. (2. ed ed.) In: AD primers. Chichester: Wiley. Ingold, T. (2013) Making: anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. London ; New York: Routledge. MacDonald, S. (2001) The garden in the machine: a field guide to independent films about place. Berkeley: University of California Press. Simanowski, R. Digital art and meaning: reading kinetic poetry, text machines, mapping art, and interactive installations Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Sheil, Robert (ed.) (2005) Design through Making. Chichester: Wiley. Pallasmaa, Juhani (2009) The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture. Chichester: Wiley. Pallasmaa, Juhani (2012) The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. (3rd Ed.) Chichester: Wiley. Taylor, Mark. Interior Design And Architecture. 1st ed. London ; New Delhi [u.a.]: Bloomsbury, 2013. Yiannoudes, S. (2016) Architecture and adaptation: from cybernetics to tangible computing. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Useful web-links
Previous process blogs: https://www.tumblr.com/search/amin0228 https://yvonnexublog.wordpress.com/ https://wordpress.com/pages/921603356dotblog.wordpress.com https://sookiema.wordpress.com/ https://crystalyang0711.wordpress.com/ https://humidsite.wordpress.com/ https://nicki0711.wordpress.com/ https://chidiofulu.wordpress.com/about/ https://mshsuanchen.tumblr.com/ https://mmagos.tumblr.com/ https://andy8228.wordpress.com/ https://komalmittal62.wixsite.com/website https://yma-archi.tumblr.com/
MA Grad Show 2018
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018-19