Assignment 2: Deadline midnight tonight!

Just a quick note to let you all know that it has been a pleasure working with you and I look forward to seeing how your work develops over the next couple of years. If you are still working to finish your submission for Saturday night, don't forget to check back through the comments on any of the assignment related blog posts for questions and answers that have been posted there over the last couple of weeks. Good luck!

Assignment 2: DA Sample Docs

The set of documents used to submit a development application to council for this site have been posted into a folder called "DA Samples" in the same folder as the model for the neighbours as posted last week:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tkpczyos3bphj98/KGIHmlmX8V

This should give you a good sense of the sort of material that is required in a full DA submission, as well as some additional direction for you as you prepare the material for your own submission. As noted previously, I do not expect you to produce a Statement of Environmental Effects (SoEE) to the length that you see here, nor as complete a set of drawings, but you do need to have explained your project FULLY, and to have addressed, in the SoEE, all of the potential council concerns.

Good luck everybody, I look forward to seeing what you have put together at the end of next week!

Assignment 2: Change in requirements

In the interest of your interests...  I have decided that you are no longer required to submit material in relation to items 18 and 19 of the DA submission checklist (these are non-core items). This means you do NOT need to produce a Concept Drainage Plan or a Site Waste Minimisation and Management Plan.

You do still need to produce material in relation to checklist items 1-9, 12-13, 15

Assignment 2: Neighbour model

To make life just a touch easier, here is a model of the neighbouring buildings. I have saved it in Revit (release 2014) format, DWG, and DAE (which can be used in Sketchup).

 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tkpczyos3bphj98/KGIHmlmX8V

Assignment 2: Studio Crit

The week 13 studio will be used to provide students with a critique of their progress on this assignment. While we do not expect that your work will be completed (and indeed, this is your opportunity to garner feedback that you can use to refine your final submission), it does need to be sufficiently developed to allow you to demonstrate and explain the project to a jury member unfamiliar with the project.

You will have a 10 minute time slot assigned to you, and in this time you will need to be able to:

1. show and explain the design
2. discuss the design requirements and style based on your developed research client brief
3. demonstrate how your design reflects the style of your research client ( how your design is recognisably that of your client)
4. respond to questions and commentary from the jury members and from other students

We would suggest you plan for approximately 6 minutes of presentation and 4 minutes of discussion. Note that this crit forms part of the mark for assignment 2. Marks will be based on your ability to tell the story of your project, not on the level of completion of the project.

Final submission for the project is NO LATER THAN midnight, Saturday, November 16 (but hey, you can submit earlier if you like!).

Assignment 2: The Brief

The client (your research designer / artist) would like to ensure that the following needs are met by your design:

First, a rooming list:

1. Master bedroom (with walk in robe and ensuite)
2. minimum two other general bedrooms
1. a bathroom associated with these two bedrooms
2. must include a bath and seperate shower
3. a study / guest bedroom
4. a studio / workshop
1. for drawing and art projects, music, etc
5. Formal living room
1. fireplace
6. Formal dining room
7. informal family area
8. kids play room
9. WC
10. Kitchen
1. double wall oven
2. 2 bowl sink
3. island benchtop with free standing range hood
4. walk-in pantry if possible
11. Laundry (sufficient to do washing, ironing, etc inside the room)
12. 2 car garage (with additional storage space)

Next, relationships:

1. Bedrooms should be grouped together, although the study / guest bedroom should be associated with the public areas of the house rather than the other bedrooms. Nevertheless, ensure that this room is also able to maintain some degree of privacy when in use by guests.
2. the walk in robe should be used as a buffer between the bedroom and ensuite. Can also be used as an entrance into bedroom suite, but then must have doors on robes to make it look better
3. would like a small balcony off of the master bedroom
4. kitchen to be the hub of the house
5. kids play room to be associated with bedrooms 2+3
6. garage to have internal access from house

Fianlly, comments:

1. Want a WOW! reaction when visitors enter our home
2. lots and lots of natural light - big windows, skylights, etc
3. want a house that is warm in winter and cool in summer, and inexpensive to run
4. ensuite does not need a bath tub, but should have a large shower, with a waterfall rose and an adjustable rose
5. would like a minimum of 8 lineal metres of hanging in the WIR
6. master bedroom should have a view
7. king size bed in the master bedroom
8. kitchen should be big enough for visitors to hang out in when entertaining
9. Laundry should be big enough to work in effectively
10. would love a home theatre if you can make it fit!
11. high ceilings

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NOTES:

You will notice that there are no comments above in relation to style or form for the design. You will need to review this brief in relation to your previous exercise (when you wrote a brief for your research designer), reconcile the differences, and use that information to determine the stylistic cues appropriate to your design. This means that it should be possible to identify who your research subject is based on the style of your design. Remember, the tutors are there to help, so ask them if you are unsure of how to do this! Consider the processes you went through with the paper folding exercise in relation to abstracting a design, and also the work done creating posters in relation to your research subject. These two exercises revolved around the underlying design cues in that work, and how to read them effectively. You can now take those results and reverse the process - take the abstracted results you obtained and turn them back into more complex forms for their expression in a residential context.

As we want to use this exercise as the basis for representational studies, you will be expected  to finalise the brief and develop your design within the next two weeks, leaving you with 3 weeks to prepare the material for your final submission. During the week 10 studio you will be asked to demonstrate your reconciled brief, and in week 11 you will be asked to show your resolved design. This is your big push week! If you do not succeed in finalising the design in time for the week 11 studio, it is unlikely you will be able to complete the assignment itself for the end of the semester...

If you have any questions, ask them TODAY!! Answers will be collated and added to the blog for all students to see and make use of.

Assignment 2: Commentary

Some questions and comments in relation to the Stage 1 requirements for Assignment 2: DA submission

Submission is due as a blog post no later than midnight, Thursday, October 10th. There are two parts to the submission, with three deliverables:

1. Site analysis
1. a drawing overlay of the survey showing information relating the site to its environment and neighbourhood
2. a short text description of the site and surroundings, no more than 2-300 words
1. refer to the DA checklist and the DCP (pages 6-7) for some ideas of what the site analysis should include
1. THIS example, from Parramatta City Council, is over the top, but does give some idea of the types of information that could be included
2. HERE is a more typical, if somewhat basic version (as part of a full DA set)
3. Lake Macquarie City Council has a good explanation of what a site analysis needs HERE
4. and you can find discussion of site analysis in place like Wikipedia
2. this drawing can be electronic (Revit, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc) or a hand drawing, but needs to incorporate the use of colour and bold graphic symbology to tell the story of the site.
2. Planning Controls
1. A chart laying out all relevant controls, descriptions of what the controls mean and how they work, and the numerical results of applying those controls to our site
2. Drawings that translate the controls in your chart in graphic form onto the actual site. This will need to be both plan and sectional drawings

You should also be spending time in the next two weeks to ensure you have Revit up and running and to work through some of the training materials, so that you will have a bit of a head start when you get the building design brief  in the week 10 lecture.

Finally, think some more about the exercise you did in week 7 in building a brief for your research designer / artist. That person / company will be your client for this house, so you will be needing to interpret their style in terms of the brief provided in week 10. Make sure you understand that style...