Mix up brief

•Project: Mix Up
•Format: A0
•Medium: Pencil/ Ink Drawings, Models Cardboard 1:500. 1:200 (concept).1:100
•Dates: Phase 1: 13 August - 27 August, Phase 2 07 September -24 September
Design a mixed use building within an urban park at the south end of Marshalltown. The building should be used 24h/ day and be an integral part of the park. Design a place for a broad audience, residents and visitors, a space where you would like to go to on a sunny Sunday or meet a friend on a free evening.
Requirements building/ guidelines:
Multipurpose hall for 100/200/ 300/ 400 people (dividable)
Kitchen
Toilet block
Storage space
Services
Internet Café
Bar/ kitchen
Toilet block
Crèche/ child care
Toilet block
Gallery/ exhibition space
2-3 bedroom Apartment for care take, incl. kitchen, bathroom, living and dining space
10 b&b rooms with bathrooms
Breakfast room
Reception
Additional residential units optional
Office
4 classrooms for evening school/ ABET training
Additional programme optional in accordance with concept
Services like toilets/ reception can be shared if general layout accommodates it.

Requirements Urban Park/ guidelines:
Outdoor Cinema/ Drive in
Basketball field
Playground
Urban furniture
Recycling area
Food gardens
Potential market space
Potential small retail
Additional programme optional in accordance with concept
Integration of taxi rank (existing informally) appreciated.
Carefully integrate possible winds, sun and rains into your spatial and material development (look at solar energy, water catchment/ re-use etc)
Carefully plan communal indoor and outdoor spaces in order to provide a relevant spatial setting for the mix up urban park in Marshalltown. Take the public interface of the building into consideration in the design process.
Process: concept/ idea, sizing, sketch design, design development, detailed design
1) Master plan urban park 2) building development
Production:
drawings
analysis site and programme – no scalesite plan 1:1000,1:500
concept design plans urban park, sections, elevations 1:200,design development plans, sections, elevations1:100
3 perspectives – eye height – no scale3 concept sketches/ diagrams – no scale
modelsgreater site model1:1000, 1.500 with context model building/ parkl1:200,
building model 1:100
The project will be judged ona) concept/ structure and spaceb) spatial qualities based on programme and context.c) quality of spatial representation in modeld) quality of spatial representation in drawing
•All submissions phase one have to be pinned up before 10 o’clock in the studio on Thursday, 27 August 2009, phase two on Thursday, 24 September 2009.
•Late entries will not be accepted and be marked 0%.