Week 10 – Tasks for Studio and Independent Study for Week 11

• Receive your grades and feedback from your tutors on your first assignment.
• Gather up to 10 textures that relate to your ideas, and that you would like to use as materials in your redesign (you may have already started defining your materials), using concept development and your research so far as a basis for your material choice.
• During studio, and taking no more than half an hour, produce an A3 montage of your project as it currently stands. This should capture the feel and flavour of your concepts and development.
• Using your 150 word descriptive ideas for your direction for your building, your draft models, and your 10 image texture pallet, create an A3 expressive montage of your ideas. You should be able to use images mostly from your blog.
• Post a high quality jpeg of your montage to your blog. This should be a quick exercise, and will provide you with a snapshot of your development so far.
• Get feedback on your draft models and continue modelling your individual concepts and ideas, bringing your project to a high level of resolution, considering construction, site context, materials, details and any other aspects of architectural resolution that you believe are pertinent to your scheme.
• Based on your developing concepts and your preference for varying technologies, consider what required additional technology you would like to use to convey your project.
• Gather in small groups within your tutorial groups and present your projects to your fellow students to generate discussion around possible technologies that could be applied to your projects for best effect.
• By the end of studio you should have a firm idea for the third presentation format you would like to include in your project.

Independent Study

• Choose your third format of presentation for your final assignment, as stated in the Assignment 2 brief. Provide a synopsis or a case study (approximately 300 words) of the technology you intend to use, including images and examples. Provide properly referenced, verifiable sources.
• In addition to your case study, provide a brief explanation of the “why” of your choice, focusing on the benefits that you perceive the technology can bring to your project, and how you intend to use your chosen technology for your presentation.
• Consider limitations and opportunities to best engage the technology in a unique and interesting manner.
• Define a base grid layout for your 3 x A1 posters (I suggest using InDesign), using grid lines and solid blocks, starting to think about your content, and how you might like to arrange your pages. Think about page orientation, relationship between the three pages and grid sizes. Post images of your A1 grid to your blog.
• Conduct more detailed research on your chosen architecture, concentrating on styling and representation techniques (development sketches, techniques of layout, plans, axonometrics, perspectives, etc.). You will need to explore further than the internet do this. You will have to go to the library and search books and journals to find relevant content. Post your research to your blogs, including complete referencing for your material.