3.0 In-Habitat
01/06/20 - 11/09/20 Brief
Requirements
Outcomes
Your year masters here at UCA will cummulate in a designed built work which can be virtual or analogue, but is a developed spatial work which is presented in a digital platfrom which is agreed between the staff and students according to the opportunities and requirements of the project. These digital habitats form the basis of the final examination, are ambitious works which require careful planning and execution. The projects then form part of The UCA MA Online Summer Show which opens at the end of the course after the internal and external examination process, alongside the other MA courses across the school and is open for a week. Your proposal must be space-making in some way which incudes complex, inhabitable spatial design and extends beyond object and product/furniture to deal with habitation of some scale, in a digital or analogue form. What is crucial here is you are working towards presenting your work in an exhibition, albeit online, which is available for the public to view and forms the most important part of your assessment. So think about what you would like to present in a ‘gallery’ type space and, if your work does not immediately conform to this, how you might solve these challenges of presentation. You need to maintain your documentation blog recording your experimentation and research. This is alongside the usual portfolio submission and a consise design report. The final submission will form a film of the experience of the work and a film of the making of the project. You might also submit a VR file, or a website if depending on how you have developed the showing of your work. You will develop your ability to design and deliver a full scale project through the planning and production stage. Your practical work is expected to demonstrate innovation and a high level of skill and execution that directly relates to a your research concerns through collborative cluster work. You will demonstrate a coherent relationship between a sophisticated and on-going theoretical enquiry and a well-realised spatial intervention is expected, culminating in professional standard individual contributions to the MA Online Exhibition, supported by drawn professional level outputs to exhibit alongside your final outcome work. Joe, VR project, UCA, 2019
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2019-20
