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1. Review the PDF showing a series of architectural plans (available here) and select one to use as a precedent for your school. Your selection should be driven by your developing architectural or engineering theory; you will justify this to your Tutor and your group in Teams.

2. Once you have made your selection you should spend about an hour modifying, extending, transforming, adjusting or otherwise developing your chosen plan to reflect the spaces required in the brief. You might do this in Photoshop, or if you have access to a printer you might draw over the plan directly or even cut and paste elements of it like a collage.

Note: This is a quick brainstorming exercise to encourage you to be spontaneous, to push the limits of what might be considered an appropriate space for a given function.

3. Next, use the same plan as above re-imagined as a section to develop your school in 3 dimensions. In other words, choose a section line and rotate the plan through 90 degrees to create a cross or long section; you will most likely need to shift elements of your developing plan vertically, up or down, in an attempt to make the Architecture make sense in 3 dimensions and in relation to the designs you've been working on with your perspective drawings last week.

 

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Complete by the beginning of the next tutorial (note, as Monday next week is a public holiday the next tutorial will be self directed - details released on Tuesday next week).

1.
Create a 3 dimensional model of the school in SketchUp following the plan and section designed above.

2. Export the first draft of your bridge/school to Lumion and post 2 images of it to your blog. Upload the plans and sections you used to develop the model.

Note: make sure you save the Lumion environment as you go along as it will be a part of your EXP2 submission. Use EXP2 followed by your student id number then _v01, _v02, _v03 to denote successive versions (saving over the top of your files won't help you when the last one you saved becomes corrupt!).