EXPERIMENT ONE: DATUM

DUE: Part 1 Sunday March 01, by midnight. Part 2 EXTENSION Wednesday March 18, by midnight.

ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING: Part 1 = 10%. Part 2 = 30%

EXPERIMENT OUTLINE

TIMETABLE: 4 Weeks, 40% of final grade.
ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE: Articulating below, on and above a ground plane. Studio workshops.
ARCHITECTURAL CATALYST: The Stair.
CLIENTS: the_kyza (Khyzyl Saleem, @the_kyza on Instagram), Mountain & Moon (Audrey Allen and Ashton Cameron, https://www.mountainandmoon.com.au/ ), Trent Jansen Studio (Trent Jansen, https://trentjansen.com/)
SITE: Virtual Tabula Rasa
PREMISE: We can understand Architecture as a series of relationships between surfaces, objects and spaces. The datum introduces an idea of measurement into these relationships so that we can begin to understand the balance or otherwise of a scheme.

PROCEDURE

Choose a specific work from two of the three companies listed above and create an architecture consisting of three spaces; one below ground, one above ground and one on the ground plane. The spaces above and below ground are the clients studio workshops (imagine they are actually creating the work there). The space on the ground plane is a place for selling the work. Create a stair that allows each client to bring their completed work to the showroom on the ground plane in a distinctive and significant way.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Students will be assessed on the level and extent to which they engage with the criteria listed below:

ASSESSMENT PART 1: THE STAIR CONCEPT MODEL

DISTINCTIVENESS_70%_Does the stair demonstrate a distinctive approach to bringing the completed work into the showroom?
SIGNIFICANCE_30%_Does the stair demonstrate a significant approach to bringing the completed work into the showroom?

ASSESSMENT PART 2: EXPERIMENT ONE: DATUM

THE THREE WORDS _10%_Do the three words work together to suggest a distinctive and significant approach to engaging with each clients work?
THE 18 SKETCH SECTIONS _10%_Do the sketch sections communicate a distinctive and significant approach the student has taken with respect to the clients work and their relationship to the datum?
THE 36 CUSTOM TEXTURES _ 10%_Do the 36 custom textures demonstrate enquiry and experimentation with respect to ideas of measurement?
THE DEVELOPED STAIR _ 20%_Does the stair demonstrate a distinctive and significant approach to bringing the completed work into the showroom?
THE ARCHITECTURE _50%_ Do the images demonstrate that the student has thought about the relative size of each element, what their proportions are, their orientation, how texture and color map over their surfaces and how all of the above work together to establish the balance or otherwise of their scheme?

RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS


www.russelllowe.com/arch1101/index.htm
www.arch1101-2020.blogspot.com
http://groups.google.com.au/group/arch1101-2020/topics

"Getting Started with SketchUp" video tutorials here: https://youtu.be/dL01iW9DAEU .

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