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.