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...

Assignment 2: DA Submission

You are to put together a DA (development application) submission for a house for your research architect/artist/designer. As this is a DA submission, you will find your deliverables list here:

http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/file_download/177/DA_form.pdf

• Pages 4-7 contain a checklist of items that must be submitted as part of a DA. Therefore, this is what you must submit for your assignment. Note that not all items on the checklist are required...
• YOU are the applicant
• Your client is the owner

• You WILL need to supply material for items: 1-9, 12-13, 15, 18-19
• You do NOT need to supply material for items: 10-11, 14, 16-17, 20-32
• You will ALSO be required to import your model into Lumion and provide renderings and animations of the DA submission - remember that the DA is also the final opportunity to lock-in or 'sell' your design to the client!.
• Design and documentation is to be undertaken using Autodesk Revit, and visualisation is to be undertaken using Lumion. 
• If you do not already have these programs installed on your personal machines you will need to do so by week 10. It is your responsibility to undertake the training material that accompanies these programs. Tutors will endeavour to help with questions and issues wherever possible, but do not have enough time available to hold your hand all the way through the process.
• Autodesk has free educational versions of its' software available to you, and Lumion has a free version available for download
• note that the free version of Lumion has very limited libraries of objects and it would be worth buying the full version while you are a student.

In order to plan and design your building, and to fulfil the requirements of the DA application, you will need to refer to several documents including the Mosman DCP and LEP. These documents contain planning controls and requirements for development in Mosman:

Residential DCP (PDF 15MB)
Mosman Local Environmental Plan 2012 (PDF 871KB)
Mosman LEP 2012 - Land Zoning (LZN) map (PDF 2MB)
Mosman LEP 2012 - Height of Buildings (HOB) map (PDF 550KB)
Mosman LEP 2012 - Foreshore Building Line (FBL) map (PDF 490KB)
Mosman LEP 2012 - Floor Space Ratio (FSR) map (PDF 608KB)

A client brief (scope of works) will be provided to you in week 10 (immediately post the coming semester break and non teaching weeks), and you will need to relate this to the week 7 studio exercise to determine how to apply the information about your specific client's needs to the site. During weeks 10 and 11 we will use the lecture times (and parts of the studio time as well) to talk about aspects of the DA process.

Stage 1:

Between now and week 10 you are required to research all of the relevant information in relation to the site. It is up to you to determine what information (and controls) are relevant, and what they mean in relation to the site. The links above give you everything you need to carry out this task. You must provide a checklist of all of the relevant controls, with their rules, and the resulting calculation specific to the project site. You must also produce a drawing showing the application of those controls in graphic terms (such as building envelope setbacks, height controls, etc), and another drawing for the site analysis (Item 4 from the DA checklist, as well as pages 6-7 from the Mosman Residential DCP). These must be submitted (via your blog) no later than midnight, Thursday, October 10th.

The site is #5 Wyargine Street, Balmoral, and you can download the site survey, in DWG and PDF format, here. Site photos and other material will be made available in week 10. Please note that the site has a new home on it, but you will be using the survey and other information as if that project had not yet been undertaken; as such a site visit is not deemed necessary.

Studio Exercise 4: Week 7

This week you are going to write a brief, from the point of view of the client. As we have discussed, representation can occur through drawings (both technical and emotive), physical forms such as models, film and animation as shown this morning, and as written or verbal description.

Today you will explore the latter.

Part 1:
Do some research on your selected architect / artist / designer to determine what they might look for in the design of a home for themselves. Can you find any information on family? What about their cultural roots? What can you say about their design style? Think through these and other questions and write up a section on your blog that defines how this person would define their needs and desires in a home.

If it is a company you are using as your research topic, treat them as a person...  If there is no family that you can identify, then you are defining a bachelor pad....

Part 2:
Put together a brief. Remember that in this document you must define not only what you want (as the client) but why. In this circumstance your brief must be capable of being understood by your architect without you there to explain it, so it should include not only a  list of explanations about room sizes, but also how they will be used, how your family interacts in the home, how you entertain, how you like to work in the kitchen and other general living spaces, etc. A document of this nature will run to at least 4 pages of material combining the lists of spaces and the explanation of those spaces. Also be sure that you explain the architectural style that you want for your home, and include images that help to explain what you are after.

This material must be completed and uploaded to your blog by the end of studio.

Ahhh, bugger!

Just a quick one to apologise...  :-) The previous two posts (Embedding in PDFs and Note on Deliverables) were intended to go online last weekend, and I'm not sure what I did, but... I screwed up! Sorry! Anyway, here they are, let me know if anyone still has any questions.