EXPERIMENT TWO: THE EDGE

DUE: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 10 10AM.

ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING: 30% (marking schedule)

EXPERIMENT OUTLINE


TIMETABLE: 3 Weeks. 30% of final grade
ARCHITECTURAL ISSUE: The Art of Experimentation
ARCHITECTURAL CONVENTION: The Ramp
ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE: Articulating behind, through and in front of a vertical surface. A lab
REFERENCE TEXT: http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html
CLIENTS: Florence Nightingale, Stephen Hawkins, Charles Darwin
SOFTWARE: UT2004, Fraps, Blogger
TECHNIQUES: The axonometric, Boolean operations, real time image capture, blogging
OUTPUTS: 18 sketch axonometric drawings, 36 custom textures, 2 draft UT2004 environments, 1 final UT2004 environment, 5 real time image captures on a Blogger weblog.
PREMISE: Architecture may be designed by the amalgamation of discrete forms. Such Boolean operations promote an abstract understanding of the relationships required to make whole systems.

PROCEDURE

Choose a specific idea from two of the three clients listed above and create an architecture consisting of three spaces; one behind a vertical surface, one in front of the surface and one on the vertical surface itself. The spaces behind and in front of the vertical surface are the clients laboratories (imagine they actually came up with the idea there). The space on the vertical surfce is a place for your clients to meet and exchange ideas. Create a ramp that allows each client to arrive at their meeting in a distinctive and significant way.

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:

THE THREE QUOTES _ Do the three quotes work together to suggest a distinctive and significant approach to engaging with each clients ideas?
THE 18 SKETCH AXONOMETRICS _ Do the 18 sketch axonometrics communicate a distinctive and significant approach the student has taken with respect to the clients ideas and their relationship to the edge?
THE 36 CUSTOM TEXTURES _ Do the 36 custom textures demonstrate enquiry and experimentation with respect to ideas of light and shadow?
THE RAMP _ Does the ramp demonstrate a distinctive and significant approach to bringing the clients together?
THE IMAGE CAPTURES AND ARCHITECTURE _ Do the image captures 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?