Tuesday, March 11, 2014

green light turned orange


Pls remember that the light has in little to do with passing or failing in terms of approach/ quality of work,
But more with completeness and representation. So a green light does not guarantee a good mark not does
the orange one indicate a bad one. It simply shows that you were not presenting yet what is expected.
Red is however concerning in terms of quantity and most possibly quality.
The absent students have to present a valid reason for their absence to be able to continue the project.
Should you have been marked absent and were there and crited, contact me, I will double check on the crit lists.

Here is what you ALL have to look at

-          Site plan – larger context, view of roofs (this is a roofing project...)
-          Incl existing ground floor with the position of the staircase in the presentation (can be 1:100 if space problems)
-          Plan + section, elevation have to relate to each other should be they underneath each other – walls of section have to be above/ below corresponding walls in plan
-          Gutters and flows of rainwater have to be considered, planned for and this has to be shown in the drawings
-          Timber structure has to be represented in plan, section (and elevation if applicable)
-          It must be clear and obvious how your roof is constructed.
-          Your roof sits on an existing structure – you need to draw and build this structure.
-          Scale, north, drawing titles
-          Watch you backgrounds in renderings – no tropical sunsets or other effects, your design in its actual context
Is what you have to show. Start with line drawings, then add carefully any effect.

If you (kind of) finished construction (section + model, either one or best both) BRING IT ON THURSDAY!
It will be to your advantage.
If you are not (kind of) finished, you’ll bring it to the oral. It will not be to your disadvantage. 



Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Monday, February 10, 2014

architect's data, digital version

i burned a cd with the digital version of the architects data. this will be available at admin for ONE OF THE CLASSREPS to pick up today after lunch and organize who wants to make copies (cd) or copy it on a laptop. i will bring another copy to thursday's class.


size + scale, architect's data











some links


http://www.inhabitots.com/make-your-diy-book-projects-pop/
http://wp.robertsabuda.com/make-your-own-pop-ups/
https://diy.org/skills/papercrafter/challenges/150/make-a-pop-up-book
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001156/makingbooks/em_popup.htm

Pop Up Books










Victoria Macey, Bodoni Bedlam
http://victoriamacey.com/BODONI-BEDLAM

Pop Up Books








Liya Mairson’s Pop-Up Cardboard Playhouse, http://liyamairson.daportfolio.com/gallery/417213

Pop Up Books







Jin-Hui Kim
http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/03/26/really-big-pop-up-book/


Pop Up


Project: POP UP
Format: A4 (multiple) pop up book
Medium: white paper, black lines, card board (white)
Dates:    MO 10Feb hand out, THU 13 Feb mock up crit; MO 17Feb final crit, THU 20Feb hand in. Late submissions will be marked FABS.

Brief:     
Design and make a pop up book for a play house.
The book has to be made in scale 1:1 the play house has to be designed in scale 1:10. The play house has to have 4 rooms: bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom.

Main elements like a bed, a table, a couch, kitchen counter, shower, sink, bath (and others) have to pop out, secondary elements like shelves, plates, paintings, mirrors, wardrobe (and others) should be drawn accurately (to scale) on the pages of the book.

The work will be kept black & white at this stage.  No color is permitted.
Recommended format: multiple A4, portrait.
BASE OF ALL DRAWINGS IS INFORMATION FROM THE ARCHITECTS DATA BY NEUFERT.
In addition to the domestic scenes your are designing and building, imagine a narrative, a story that could take place in those rooms.
Draw and cut out characters that can inhabit your space.

Evaluation:
Precision and accuracy of drawings 20%
Correct scale and size 20%
Making of the book 40%
Originality of narrative 20%

The intention is to familiarize the students with scale and sizes of domestic spaces, and make them translate those into a creative design process that requires knowledge (size and scale), techniques (pop up) and imagination (narrative) to produce a product that operates on two scales, as the representation of a domestic environment (1:10) and autonomously as a book (1:1). The aim is to use the most suitable projects ‘outside the classroom’ as part of the Rosettenville Studio in our collaboration with the Resthaven Ministries.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

2014 year schedule + projects, provisional



DESIGN COMPONENT

Proj1  Pop Up  5%  quarter 1
Proj2  Top Up  10%  quarter 1
Proj3   Context  10%    quarter 1/2
Proj4   G_Row_House  20%   quarter 2
Proj5   Inside_Out  10%   quarter 3
Pro6   Safely Public  30%   quarter 3/4
Proj7  On the Edge  15%  quarter 4
Tutorials and presentations run through the year, those are required submissions. Attendance registers will be taken. Every project related to the Rosettenville Studio will entail ‘community’ outputs, those are required submissions. All details will be issued separately, in projects briefs and additional hand outs, if necessary. 
Design component = 90 % of total mark

THEORY COMPONENT 
The theory project are two written exams, one in the middle and one in the end of the year. Both count 5% each.
Theory component = 10% of total mark