Your first task is to form groups of 3 to 5 students and among yourselves decide on the following:
- The function(s) of the site;
- Existing buildings to be kept and those to be demolished;
- The functions of the building(s) to be designed (or redesigned) by each member of the group (at least, two distinctively different functions);
- A conceptual master plan for the site; and
- The zone allocated to each member of the group for their individual building(s).
The site visit planned for next week (05/10/2015) will help you make better-informed decisions on the above. Each group is expected to present to the whole class the results of these decisions on the morning of Monday 12/10/2015 (as a poster, an on-screen presentation or a projected blog entry).
Each student then has two weeks to come up with the conceptual design of their buildings. This entails a definition of the needs of the client and the wider community of users, a review of precedents and general ideas about the building and its:
- Location;
- Size;
- Form;
- Function;
- Internal zones;
- Adjacencies;
- Access;
- Views; and
- Impact.
These ideas will be presented as a pin-up to the whole class and a panel of internal and external experts on Monday 26/10/2015.
Based on the feedback received from the panel, each student will develop their own completed brief. For this reason, every student will develop a provisional list of functional and operational targets for their building as well as a list of rooms and spaces needed for addressing these targets. Through consultation with the module lecturer, these lists are finalised and then developed to form part 3 of this brief (around a 1000 words plus diagrams and images). The completed brief will be submitted in both electronic format (on student’s blog) and in hard copy no later than 16/11/2015.