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Project: PS

Format: Collage/ A6 Class Matrix of Joburg
Medium: Pencil Drawings/ Photographs
Dates: Hand Out: MO 01Feb, Crit: THU 04Feb, Hand In: MO08Feb

Where do you come from? How do you live? What do you see? Where do you go? What is PS?
The project is about beginning to understand the interrelation between the city, buildings, places and specific focus on the notion of access . You as 2nd year design class will set up a matrix using Johannesburg’s spatial layout as base and your way from home to Wits as guiding lines. Along the way, you will introduce yourself, your room and propose 3 buildings of interest and 3 places to go to. All information will be presented as a common project in the room walls off the ramp between 1st and 2nd year studio. This matrix will become a permanent installation, yet changing over the year.


Requirements:
A6 portrait pages of
a) your way from your room to Wits on the general map, in pencil, marked with your personal nr ( as assigned in lecture on Monday 01 Feb). The map is generated from A6 copies, made from the Map Studio Atlas provided to the class. The grid of the atlas has to be keep and referred to.
b) plan and section of you room, scale 1:100, including furniture and all relevant detail with the following information: suburb, type of dwelling(1 page)
c) your b&w portrait with the following information: name, special interest, spatial interest, favourites: colour, book, food, material, architect, place, building, question, mode of transport. (1 page)
d) 3 buildings of value ( architectural, political, historical, personal) max 1 in each category, 1 page/ building incl. name, physical address, architect, date, use, short description
e) 3 public places of value ( architectural, political, historical, personal) max 1 in each category, 1 page/ place incl. name, architect, date, use, short description.buildings(abc) and places(efg) to be indexed as explained in lecture ( nr+ abc, nr+def, e.g. 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f)
Text has to be typed, Arial 10 pt.

Layout per sketches presented in lecture.


Criteria: teamwork, precision, choice of buildings and places (explanation of value), drawing quality
All submissions have to be pinned up before 13 o’clock in the dedicated on Monday, 04 February 2009.
Late entries will not be accepted and be marked 0%.