4.0 SPECIATION
30/05/17 - 25/08/17 4.1 Brief
For this project you will be planning and executing your final work for your Masters degree here at UCA. Over the past few months you have been developing some facinating research interests. It is down to you, now, to progress these well developed interests and use your fabrication skills to produce a well made and spatial installation at 1:1 scale.
4.2 Requirements
Your proposal must be space-making in some way which incudes 1:1 fabrication and extends beyond object and product. What is crucial here is you are working towards presenting your work in an exhibition which is open to the public and forms an 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 will also be presenting some of your work on paper in frames, so you will need to consider what these images might be. You are asked to prepare a documentation blog recording your physical experimentation and research (details below). This is alongside the usual portfolio submission and a consise design report which will present your work in a precise and easily understood way.
4.3 Outcomes
You will develop your ability to design and deliver a full scale installation through the planning and fabrication stage. Your practical work is expected to demonstrate innovation and a high level of skill and execution that directly relates to a student’s research concerns. A coherent relationship between a sophisticated and on-going theoretical enquiry and a well-realised spatial intervention or installation is expected, culminating in professional standard individual contributions to the MA Graduation show.
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2016-17