2.0 Environment
Project Development// CARC7003// CIND7012 Introduction For this project you are defining and refining the general theme of your research, working towards the main focus of your output for the end of year show, and you will be engaging more closely with ideas of context through your design work. You will be taking the most fruitful and interesting aspects of your work in the first term, being critical and evaluative of that work and selecting an aspect to take forward, to develop and adapt the research you have already progressed to a more defined investigation, again with a tangible outcome. This time you will be working collboratively with others in a defined reseach cluster of three students within your chosen units.
Brief
To design and make a responsive spatial experience in relation to a particular site which challenges your perception of that space through 1:1 testing and prototyping.
Context
What does responsive mean? What does environment mean? Your work will be interactive and immersive, it must be a spatial intervention responding to your site with its own conditions, be it very site specific, environmentally specific, such as changes of heat or humidity, interactive with users, or change over time, or very specific needs of particluar users in a chosen community. The environment can be can be created through tectonic, filmic, electronic, biological or kinetic means, it can engage with issues such as sustainability and heritage, but must demonstrate some kind of very specific experience, marking it out from other work that has been progressed in your field, of which you will be more and more aware as your knowledge of your chosen field improves. It is up to you how you develop your interest but it should be rich and engaged with the experimental outer realms of contemporary design thinking. Be aware of what is entirely special about your work and how it develops our perception and understanding of space.
Outcomes
This project is designed to comply to the unit aims and learning outcomes of units CARC7003// CIND7012,following the completion of which you will be able to engage in experimental and exploratory processes in the development of an MA standard project, both practically and theoretically and critically reflecting on that process at assesed moments. You will be able to develop an advanced knowledge and use of materials, processes and techniques appropriate to the project proposal at MA level. Through your practical and written work you can gain a clear understanding of the critical context of relevant contemporary practices and the particular significance within this of the research proposal. You will, through the thesis and thessis review process, be able to reflect and explain your work in the appropriate practice context, coherently and thematically. Through your research clusters and the review process you will demonstrate your ability to work independantly, manage your workload and meet deadlines. UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2019-20
