EXPERIMENT TWO: THE BRIDGE
DUE: Thursday 14th of May, by 11:59pm.
ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING: 60%
EXPERIMENT 2: THE BRIDGE
TIMETABLE: 5 Weeks, 60% of final grade.
ARCHITECTURAL ISSUE: The Architecture of Theory and Practice.
ARCHITECTURAL CONVENTION: The Moving Element.
ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE: Articulating the relationship between Theory and Practice in the students chosen field. A school of Architecture/Engineering.
TEXT: “Richard Goodwin: Performance to Porosity” Craftsman House, 2006ISBN: 0975768425
CLIENT: Each student.
SOFTWARE: SketchUp, Lumion, Blogger.
TECHNIQUES: The axonometric, perspective, interactive elements.
ASSESSABLE OUTPUTS: 1 Theory, 3 sketch perspective drawings, 36 custom textures, 2 animated drawings (one axonomentric one perspective), 1 SketchUp model that includes the two moving elements, 1 Lumion environment (or Podium setup in SketchUp), 5 real time image captures on a Blogger weblog.
OPTIONAL: 120 second long (MAXIMUM) animated film.
PREMISE: Environments change over time. Action and interaction within an environment provide a vehicle to synthesize information and make sense of continually shifting structures.
PROCEDURE
Imagine you are the Dean of a school of Architecture or Engineering. Your school has 100 students who are drawn from all around the world and are supported by scholarships. Your challenge is to design a school that forms a bridge spanning buildings in an urban environment. The urban environment is the lower part of the "UNSW Sydney" Kensington campus; the central building is the Squarehouse (building E4 on this map). In addition, you will design two moving elements that modify the students view of the school when they see it from locations on the ground plane vs locations above ground level. These different points of view will reinforce or challenge your particular "Theory".
SPACE REQUIREMENTS
Lecture Theatre
Studio Spaces
Offices for Academic Staff
Offices for General Staff
Workshop
Computer Labs
Gallery
Research Space for Academic Staff
Meeting Rooms for Staff
Meeting Rooms for Students
Library
See this document (prepared by alumnus Jacky Yuen) for some indicative floor areas.
FORM REQUIREMENTS
Two Moving Elements: these move in relation to the main architectural form to modify views from the Architecture to its surroundings and from the surroundings to the Architecture.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
In addition to the overall course assessment criteria students will be assessed on the
level and extent to which they engage with the criteria listed below:
Theory (5%): does the recombination of 3-5 key words suggest a distinctive and significant theory?
The axonometric diagram and sketch perspectives (25%): do these representations communicate a distinctive and significant approach the student has taken with respect to their theory, circulation and inhabitation?
The custom textures (10%): do the custom textures demonstrate inquiry and experimentation with respect to ideas of movement?
The moving elements (10%): do the moving elements demonstrate a distinctive, significant and formally evocative approach to the students theory?
The architecture (50%): do the image captures and animated film demonstrate that the student has thought about the relative size of each element, what their proportions are, their orientation, what paths they facilitate, how texture and color map over their surfaces to establish a strong, conceptually driven, response to the students theory?
RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS
www.russelllowe.com/arch1101/index.htm
https://arch1101-2019.blogspot.com/
www.groups.google.com.au/group/arch1101
http://lumion3d.com/tutorials/
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