EXPERIMENT THREE: THE BRIDGE

DUE: MONDAY OCTOBER 22 by 5pm.

ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING: 45% (marking schedule)

EXPERIMENT OUTLINE


EXPERIMENT 3: THE BRIDGE

TIMETABLE: 5 Weeks, 45% of final grade
ARCHITECTURAL ISSUE: The Architecture of Power
ARCHITECTURAL CONVENTION: The Elevator
ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE: Articulating within, below and hanging from a bridging structure. An office
REFERENCE TEXT: http://www.volumeproject.org/
CLIENTS: Ratan Tata, Zhang Yin, Carlos Slim
SOFTWARE: Sketchup, UT2004, Fraps, Blogger
TECHNIQUES: The perspective, Movers.
OUTPUTS: 18 sketch perspective drawings, 36 custom textures, 2 draft UT2004 environments, 1 final UT2004 environment, 2 animations and 5 real time image captures on a Blogger weblog.
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

Choose a specific business from two of the three clients listed above and create an architecture consisting of three spaces; one above a horizontal surface, one below the surface and one hanging from the horizontal surface itself. The spaces above and below the horizontal surface are the clients offices (imagine they actually run their business' from there). The space hanging on the horizontal surface is a place for your clients to meet for a working lunch. Design two elevators and a dining table that reinforce or challange your particular understanding of "Power".

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 NEWS ARTICLES _ Do the three news articles work together to suggest a distinctive and significant approach to the idea of Power?
THE 18 SKETCH PERSPECTIVES _ Do the 18 sketch perspectives communicate a distinctive and significant approach the student has taken with respect to pathways in 3 dimensions?
THE 36 CUSTOM TEXTURES _ Do the 36 custom textures demonstrate enquiry and experimentation with respect to ideas of movement?
THE ELEVATORS AND DINING TABLE_ Do the elevators and table demonstrate a distinctive and significant approach to the students understanding of Power?
THE ANIMATIONS, IMAGE CAPTURES AND ARCHITECTURE _ Do the animations and image captures demonstrate that the student has thought about the relative size of each element, what their proportions are, their orientation, what paths they take, 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?