1.2 Climates
Project 01// Exploratory Practice// CARC7002// CIND7002
17/09/18 - 18/01/19 2.1 Brief
Design a device which: 1. Uses an active technology of your chosing to explore your given climate 2. Attracts curiosity and attention through interaction. The device needs to be interactive in some way, be a maximum of 400x400x400mm and connect to the forest table you have built. The final outcomes will be presented together, connected to the table, for your final review.
2.1 Context
The first project is a combination of group work, a live build project and also individual design outcomes. You have been working on a large scale istallation for the community of the university and this is also a place we can use as an infrastructure or site for our individual design responses to bring together for exhibition and discussion. There is a lot of sadness the the news about the state of the planet at the moment, but how can we as spatial designers bring attention to these issues but also respond to some of the potential changes to our environment? One of the most important jobs of art and design is to attract our attention, to bring interest and attract the curiosity of a user. Should we be super sad? How can we, as designers, help and bring attention to a particular challenge to our future lifestyles, but also celebrate and find joy in our relationship with our enviroment?
2.2 W hy a device?!
You have been given a climate as a natural conditon to develop your awareness of how environment and context can influence a design, but also as a provocative and tangiable starting point from which to depart on your own individual design journey. Through designing a device with a perticular technoology or system, you will realise how you must engage with technique, materiality and interactivity to actively engage a user with a piece of design. We are providing a size limit so you can make smaller, more complex pieces and you will increase in scale over the next projects. UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018/19
2.2 Outcomes
Initially, this project will serve as an introduction to design research through knowledge investigation and making practice. You will learn how to respond to a very specific brief, using contextual research as the basis for developing a spatial aesthetic language. This project should introduce you more thouroughly to the workshop spaces on site and offer the opportunity to engage with some of the specialist making expertise available. You will engage with both digital and analogue making and increase your skills in both. Through the review and supervision process you will develop a critical framework and self-evaluation which will allow you to progress your project work freely. You will become familiar with the process of design through prototype and the opportunities of testing to failure to develop a rigorous process and ambitious designed outcome. You will have an introduction to the challenges of working with interactivity with respect to both hardware and software. Electronics and sensors and the software manipulations involved in understanding their control can be challenging and uniquely technical. You should not be afraid of engaging freely with the technologies available to you and ask for help from your design tutor, Lucy Jones, or JJ Brophy who will gladly offer advice in how you might achieve your aims. Through the team live build work you are developing skills in making, project management, design and build, construction in a sensitive, live area and responding to a very specific brief with a clear set of deliverables in a certain time frame. You will learn to balance the work you do as part of a team and your individual design work and develop your performance as an overall team player.
2.3 Climates
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Ipek Angolemli Sijia Chen Junqi Cui Xingzhou Ding Youyou Guo Aditya Gupta Vibhor Gupta Ziyue Huang Rima Kini Megan Krull Mingxuan Li Yishan Li Jinhao Lin Yu-yu Lin Yue Liu Lauren Mauger Jessica Petrillo Shreya Prakash Giovanni Rosa Gayatri Shah Keyi Shi Shruti Sorte Chun-an Tsai Han-fen Tsai Xinhao Wang Yuecen Wang Zhiyuan Wang Linghui Xu Tianming Xu Mohan Zhang Yixuan Zhang Yating Zhang Tianyi Zhou
Climate Wind Rain Drought Fossil fuels Humidity Sea levels rise Biodegradability Temperature Dust Fossil fuels Erosion Biodegradability Humidity Flooding freshwater Temperature Wind Drought Cold Air pollution Biodiversity Biodiversity Sunlight CO2 Flooding freshwater Air pollution Sunlight Fog Erosion Electric Storms/ static Fog Cold Rain Electric Storms/ static
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2.2 Outcomes
400mm 400mm
400mm
Maximum dimensions 400mm
Technology / System 1. Plumbing 2. Electronics 3. The internet 4. Flint knapping 5. Sound 6. Taste 7. Air flow 8. Welding 9. Wood 10. Adonising 11. Magnetism 12. iphone app 13. Kinetic sculpture 14. Light 15. Photosynthesis 16. Coding/ Arduino 17. Condensation 18. Thatching 19. Computing 20. Scanning 21. VR 22. Robotics 23. Sensors 24. Solar energy 25. Smart fabric 26. Biotechnology 27. 3d Printing 28. Casting 29. Inflatables 30. Film technology 31. Projection 32. Hydraulics (minature) 33. Chemical reactions (stay safe!) 34. Domestic implements 35. Primitive technology 36. Tools 37. Elasticity 38. Clockwork 39. Automaton 40. Weaving 41. Photography
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2.5 Duration
The project will run from the 17/09/2018 until the portfolio submission on 18/01/2019.
2.4 Assessment
Completion of the Climates project will contribute 50% of the grade for the MA Architecture ‘Context and Method’ unit (CARC 7001) and MA Interior Design ‘Contexts and Methods’ unit (CIND 7011) and 100% of the grade for the MA Architecture ‘Exporatory Practice’ unit (CARC 7002) and the MA Interior Design ‘Exporatory Practice’ unit (CIND 7002). Both units for each course units are valued at 30 credits. Assessment will be carried out at the point of submission via a final A2 paper portfolio and completed device, but may be subject to moderation via the external examination process. Feedback will be verbal and written at formative stages and written at the summative stage for this project. Design supervision will be in groups with either Lucy Jones or Owain Caruana Davies, with a review regarding the live build, and two reviews concerning the individual design responses.
Technology/ System
During the project you will have an academic interview with Lucy Jones or Owain Caruana -Davies to discuss your specialism and research aspirations here at UCA. We need to know about your aims and expectations for the remainder of the year so we can make sure you stick to and achive your goals with a view to your future career ambitions. Induction Live build process
MA Architecture and MA Interior Design 10/9 Mon
Wk00 Induction Week
Lucy Jones
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Induction Week
Lucy Jones
11/9 Tue
Induction Week
Lucy Jones
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Induction Week
Lucy Jones
12/9 Wed
Induction Week
Lucy Jones
Foyer
14:00 - 17:00 Induction Week
Lucy Jones
13/9 Thu
Induction Fab Lab
Chris Settle
Fablab
14:00 - 17:00 Induction Week
Lucy Jones
MA Studio G0.4
14/9 Fri
Induction Week
Lucy Jones
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00
Induction Week
Lucy Jones
MA Studio G0.4
Crit Room
14:00 - 17:00 Design Charette 1
MA Studio G0.4
17/9 Mon
Wk01 Project Intro + Design Charette 1
Lucy Jones
MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4 Foyer
MA Studio G0.4
18/9 Tue
Self-directed study
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
19/9 Wed
Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
20/9 Thu
Workshop
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Study Trip Intro till 14:30 + Workshop
MA Studio G0.4
Site Visit/ London
Lucy Jones
Itinerary
14:00 - 17:00 Site Visit/ London
Lucy Jones
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Design Charette 2
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
21/9 Fri
Itinerary
24/9 Mon
Wk02 Design Charette 2
25/9 Tue
Self-directed study
26/9 Wed
Research Seminar
JJ Brophy
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
27/9 Thu
Workshop
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
Foyer
14:00 - 17:00 Design Charette 3
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
Foyer
14:00 - 17:00 Climates Pin-up
Foyer
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
28/9/18 0:00:00 Fri
Self-directed study
1/10 Mon
Wk03 Design Charette 3
2/10 Tue
Self-directed study
3/10 Wed
Research Seminar
4/10 Thu
Climates Pin-up
5/10 Fri
Design Tutors
JJ Brophy
Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4
MA Studio G0.4
8/10 Mon
Wk04 Design Charette 4
Foyer + Crit Room
14:00 - 17:00 Design Charette 4
9/10 Tue
Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Design Charette 5
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Build prep
10/10 Wed
O
11/10/00:00:002018 Thu
Design Tutors
Workshop
12/10 Fri
Self-directed study
15/10 Mon
Wk05 Design Charette 5
16/10 Tue
Build prep
Design Tutors History and Theory tutors
Design Tutors
Foyer + Crit Room
MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4
17/10 Wed
Intro: History and Theory 11-13 Library Quiet Room
MA Seminar + LQR
14:00 - 17:00 Build prep
MA Studio G0.4
18/10 Thu
Build prep
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Build prep
MA Studio G0.4
19/10 Fri
Build prep
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Build prep
MA Studio G0.4
communication Introduction / Rhino Workshop 01 22/10 Mon
Wk06 Study week - Self-directed study
14:00 - 17:00
24/10 Wed
14:00 - 17:00
25/10 Thu
14:00 - 17:00
26/10 Fri
14:00 - 17:00
29/10 Mon
Wk07 Build
UCA Quad
14:00 - 17:00 Build
30/10 Tue
Build
Practical live build & presentation Live Build review VR workshop Design supervision Field Trip or self directed
14:00 - 17:00 Build
UCA Quad
14:00 - 17:00 Build
UCA Quad
Build
UCA Quad
14:00 - 17:00 Build
UCA Quad
2/11 Fri
Build Completion
UCA Quad
5/11 Mon
Wk08 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Project Intro + Live build progress
UCA Quad
UCA Quad
14:00 - 17:00 Live Build Completion
Lucy Jones
Foyer + Crit Room
6/11 Tue
Live Build Completion
7/11 Wed
History and Theory Seminar 1
MA Seminar
14:00 - 16:00 Library seminars
8/11 Thu
Live Build Completion
UCA Quad
14:00 - 17:00 Live Build Completion
9/11 Fri
Live Build Completion
UCA Quad
14:00 - 17:00 Live Build Completion
Design Tutors
Foyer
14:00 - 17:00 REVIEW
Tommaso Lazna
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop
Tommaso Lazna
MA Studio G0.4
MA Seminar
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop
Tommaso Lazna
MA Studio G0.4
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop
Tommaso Lazna
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Design Supervision
Design Tutors
12/11 Mon
Wk09 REVIEW
History and Theory tutors
13/11 Tue
Workshop
14/11 Wed
History and Theory Seminar 2
15/11 Thu
Workshop
History and Theory tutors Tommaso Lazna
16/11 Fri
Workshop
Tommaso Lazna
19/11 Mon
Wk10 Design Supervision
Design Tutors
20/11 Tue
Self-directed study
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
21/11 Wed
Self-directed study
14:00 - 16:00 Self-directed study
22/11 Thu
26/11 Mon 27/11
Field Trip week (Venice)
Design Tutors
Wk11 Field Trip week (Venice)
Design Tutors
O
History and Theory Seminar 3
29/11
Thu
Self-directed study
30/11
Fri
Self-directed study
3/12 Mon
Wk12 REVIEW
Library Quiet Room UCA Quad UCA Quad
Design Tutors
Foyer
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Field Trip week (Venice)
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Field Trip week (Venice)
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Seminar
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop
MA Studio G0.4
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop
MA Studio G0.4
Design Tutors + Guests
Foyer + Crit Room
14:00 - 17:00
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
History and Theory tutors
Self-directed study
Tue
UCA Quad Steven Dixon Smith + Ian
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
Self-directed study
23/11 Fri
History and Theory tutors
REVIEW
MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4
Design Tutors + Guests
Foyer + Crit Room
Steven Dixon Smith + Ian
Library Quiet Room
4/12 Tue
Self-directed study
5/12 Wed
History and Theory Seminar 4
MA Seminar
14:00 - 16:00 Library seminars
6/12 Thu
Academic Interview slots
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Academic Interview slots
MA Studio G0.4
Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
Wk13 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Seminar
14:00 - 16:00 Library seminars
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Design Supervision
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Design Supervision
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
Registry
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
7/12 Fri
10/12 Mon 11/12 Tue
Design supervision
UCA Quad
17:00-20:00 Pavilion Opening event
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28/11 Wed
Review, prototypes and presentation Academic interview slots
UCA Quad
UCA Quad
Build
1/11 Thu
31/10/18 0:00:00 Wed
We are here
14:00 - 17:00
23/10 Tue
12/12 Wed
Self-directed study O
History and Theory Seminar 5
13/12 Thu
Design Supervision
14/12 Fri
Self-directed study
History and Theory tutors Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4
MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4 Steven Dixon Smith + Ian Design Tutors
Library Quiet Room MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4
CHRISTMAS BREAK
Design supervision
7/1 Mon
9/1 Wed
Review, presentaion on Forest Table Portfolion Submission
Wk14 Design Supervision
8/1 Tue
Design Tutors
Self-directed study A
Literature Review SUBMISSION
Registry Staff
Design Tutors
MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4 MA Studio G0.4
10/1
Thu
Academic Interview slots
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Academic Interview slots
MA Studio G0.4
11/1
Fri
Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
Foyer + Crit Room
14:00 - 17:00 REVIEW
Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
17/1 Thu
Academic Interview slots
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 17:00 Academic Interview slots
MA Studio G0.4
18/1 Fri
Self-directed study
MA Studio G0.4
14:00 - 15:00 PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION
14/1 Mon
Wk15 REVIEW
15/1 Tue 16/1 Wed
A
Design Tutors
Design Tutors
Registry Staff
Foyer + Crit Room
Registry
“The creation of something new is not acomplished by the intellect but by the 1 play instinct arising from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves” Carl Jung UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2018-19
2.7 Deliverables
The following are minimum deliverable requirements for completion of the project:
1. Live Build installation : Forest Table 2. Review and project package for Live Build (Monday 12.11.18) 3. Individual Climactic device: connected to the Forest Table, fixed and documented. 4. A2 Portfolio: PART A: Live Build, Forest Table, at least 15 pages including: 1. Project package information 2. Plans sections and elevations of the project (present the whole project here) 3. Details of construction 4. Documentation of the design and construction process. PART B: Individual Climactic Device, at least 20 pages including: 1. Climactic research and diagrams 2. Research into selected technology and diagram of ways in which the device is designed using this selected technlogy. 3. Research into personal interests and developing knowledge of your ressearch bias moving forward. If you are going on the study trip to Venice, documentaion of this can appear here, or visits to design exhibitions/ sites in the UK. 2. Documentation of physical fabrication tests & prototype pieces, at least five iterations of the design. 3. Records of any simulation, or digital work. 4. Documentation of the device in-situ attatched to the Forest Table. 5. Interactive drawing illustrating the interactive nature of the device over time and people’s interaction with the piece. 6. A2 drawing of the device in situ, under the influnence/ change of your climactic condition.
5. pdf of portfolio, on memory stick. 6. Online digital blog of work done. This is an important assessed component of the
project!! You should have set this up at the beginning of the year and update with documentaion of your activities and research. Lots to do!! Its time to immerse yourself in the design adventure even more as you will be shifting the focus from the team work to a more individual focus, hopefully you are all friends now.
Macro photography, bioplastic
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2.8 Staff/Guests
The project will be run by Lucy Jones (MA Course Leader), Owain Caruana-Davies and assisted by visiting design tutors. Technical support will be provided by JJ Brophy and Ben Westacott when required. During the course of the unit we will be joined by key guests for crit reviews. In order to stimulate debate and discussion teaching will be on occasion, held in tandem with the BA Interior Architecture and Design Stage 2 reviews.
2.9 Lear ning Aims
The aims of this unit are: A1. To enable you to locate your practice in relation to appropriate fields of research and enquiry and develop your in-depth specialist understanding of these in relation to your own research. A2. To introduce and develop creative practice methodologies in relation to theoretical investigation. A3. To introduce and develop specialist knowledge, technical skills and processes and to begin to explore experimental approaches to your work A4. To develop your ability to critically appraise your own work and that of others through regular critiques and student forums A5. To support you in developing your project proposal providing a framework for the planning and implementation of your research within clear practical and theoretical parameters.
2.10 Lear ning Outcomes
On satisfactory completion of the unit you will have: LO1. Demonstrated specific knowledge of research methods, critical theory and historical and contemporary practices relevant to the discipline. LO2. Demonstrated an ability to recognise potential areas for investigation, formulate research questions and identify appropriate strategies and methods of enquiry for further development through creative practice. LO3. Conducted investigation through experimentation developing an appropriate level of technical skill. LO4. Developed an ability to present creative work as a response to a research context in a clear and coherent manner. LO5. Demonstrated an ability to set goals, manage workloads and meet deadlines.
2.11 Further Reading
Please see theme document for comprehensive bibliography. The Bartlett Issuu page is a helpful resource for device-led work. Try looking at Unit 14 and Unit 23: https://issuu.com/bartlettarchucl
2.13 Useful web-links
The following are a first primer for useful materials and know-how resources: Instructables - http://www.instructables.com/ - Massive open source database of tutorials. The Workers http://theworkers.net
Ross Cairns’ company website. Some helpful projects.
Kobakant - http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/ Arduino - http://www.arduino.cc/
- Tutorials and more relating to textiles and interaction.
- Popular cheap open source microcontroller.
Freeduino - http://www.freeduino.org/ - Knowledge base for the Arduino. Make - http://www.makezine.com/ - Similar to the above with a more deliberate approach. Fritzing - http://fritzing.org/projects/ - Useful for gaining knowledge about electronic circuits. Cool Components - http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/ - UK Store for component supplies. Robives - http://www.robives.com/mechs - handy guide to mechanic gear systems. Grand Illusions - http://www.grand-illusions.com/ - Online shop of optical and other tricks. Rapid - http://www.rapidonline.com/ - Key online supplier of basic kits including gear and electronics.
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