Task for next week_090303

See the attached for the second term tasks.
The 16 drawings are the minimum you should present at the coming crit when we will get a clearer picture on who will pass this year.

- written brief on your farm-restaurant project (100-150 words) --- recommendation
- describe the aim of your project and design approaches/methods
- again, clarify what to sell (cultural and spatial experience) and how to sell it


Term 2 tasks:
- workshop documents 1: networking game (field trip) – distinguish your task from the cowork
- workshop documents 2: block model making

- drawing 1: exploded axonometric of your kiosk (in a proper scale)
- separate components of your kiosk in a functional sense (prosthetic mechanism, cooking part,
serving part, envelop, moving mechanism etc.)
eg. Tingwei, your kiosk consists of a flour-dough production mechanism, a noodle
extracting mechanism, a cooking environment (interior), an envelop (exterior)
and moving mechanism

- drawing 2: site planning (1:250) to describe the strategy (aim, goal) of your farm-restaurant
- draw your own map showing wall fragments you chose with urban contexts (streets, buildings,
the Thames… ) your restaurant may engage with or influence on
- position the components of your kiosk in relation to the wall fragments

- drawing 3-6: axonometrics - the incorporation of kiosk components into farm-restaurant programmes
- think about the programmes below (farm, kitchen, dining area, toilets)
- draw out how each programme adopts a relevant kiosk component
eg. Paula, how do you interpret the egg-shape of your kiosk in your farm-restaurant?
Can you adopt the arrangement of the kiosk facilities (ingredient storage, sink,
chopping board, oven etc.) to the arrangement of the farm-restaurant programmes?
Where does the opening/closing mechanism occur in the farm-restaurant?
eg. Inga, how do you reuse the projection mechanism in your farm-restaurant?

- farm: consider what and how to grow – water source, soil and climate condition
assign a new function to a wall fragment and change its physical properties, if
necessary
- kitchen: how to prepare the farm product and your main dish?
- dining area: how the food is served?
what and how customers appreciate apart from the food?
- toilets: consider the effects of your food on metabolism (ig. digestion)
consider what else can the toilets provide

- drawing 8: site planning (1:250) to describe the strategy and tactics (methods) of your farm-restaurant
- draw your own map showing the layout of your programmes (farm, kitchen, dining area,
toilets)
- draw the connection/circulation between the programmes

- drawing 9-12: at least one section of each programme with a wall fragment and relevant urban contexts
--- reconsider the related culture of each programme
--- be inventive, as you were in designing a kiosk

- drawing 13-16: at least on plan of each programme with a wall fragment and relevant urban contexts

--- every drawing on a A3 or bigger paper

Crit @Gensler

When: 9.30am-5pm 24th Feb
Where: Gensler London Office
Aldgate House, 33 Aldgate High Street
London EC3N 1AH

9:30am Reception at ground level
9:30-9:45am Office tour
9:45-10:00am Pin-up & intro
10:00-1:00pm Introduction
Asma
Anna
Chris
Tingwei
Vipin
Wei
Inga
Ivon
Demetris
1:00-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-4:30pm
Nick
Prashant
Dave
Paula
Sam
Selam
Mentor
Kemi
Naveed
4:30-5:00pm Wrap-up session

The crit at the Gensler next Tuesday (24th) will be the time to expose yourselves to a practical environment,
a preliminary stage you will eventually step on right after academic experience.
You may hardly get this kind of chances to get comments on your work from a group of leaders of the world biggest architecture firm.
Better, they have keen academic perspectives as well.
Commit yourself first of all on the tasks (13 drawings), without which you will suffer.
Prepare your presentation - from the beginning of the year up to now - 5 minutes max.
Key terms, again, are - what you are selling and how you sell them - as architecture designers.

Bring all the work, including the first term projects.
We are meeting in the lobby at 9:30.
Anyone who will not come, let Tae know asap.