DESIGN 11: built environment

Overview:

You will demonstrate and apply your critical understanding of built environment design and its relation to people, the environment and cultures by:

1. Investigating or deconstructing an existing Built environment an its designer
2. Designing a sustainable or re-purposed design of the environment you researched
3. Presenting all that you researched and designed in a website that suites the look and feel of your built environment.
   - You will apply good design principles to your website design. We will use WIX for the layout and easy operation and allowing more focus on the creativity

Before you Begin:

1. Read over ALL instructions
2. Create a folder in your account or in your Documents Folder and name it after the structure you are researching e.g. "Alsop_smith" for now. In this folder place a copy of all images and drag and drop all web links you use.
3. Set up a GDoc file to record (not copy/paste) your research and your sources of information. Everything must be referenced. Save images SEPARATE from the doc file.

Project Task & Targets:

You will research a built environment and create a website that promotes the space.

The website will have 4 pages:

• Page one, focuses on a built environment. Show images and describe the internal and external spaces /finishes. Outline what is innovative about the environment. Persuade your audience to want to care about the space. (see below under Initial Research)
• Page 2, focuses on the architect /designer. Include images and descriptions of the designer's philosophy or intent and examples from their body of work.
• Page 3, here you present a revision of the environment. Redesign it on paper or sketch up to suit a new function. You might turn a cathedral into a skate park. Include on this page .jpegs of your design AND a written rationale for your re-vision.
• Page 4 will be a glossary of terms you learned while investigating your architect. You should present 5-10 terms. All definitions MUST be written in your own words. Including visual examples (like a picture dictionary) is encouraged.
• Among your pages, you should present at least 10 images of your environment.
• Include active Links to your research sources.

Your Design will need to appear:

• simple and clear, organized using tables, layers or frames as appropriate.
• engaging to look at (without sacrificing clarity)
• as a reflection of the stylistic concepts of your chosen architect
• as a design challenge for you. Innovative.

Technically:

• Your pages must be organized in a folder with images in a sub folder
• The main page labelled index.html
• All links work and there is a link to every page from every page

Your Planning will be made evident through:

• 3 different layout ideas
• a concept map of your pages.

See recent examples of successful sites here: Design 11 200X

To begin, refer to the resource on how to build a website (steps and videos)

Details:

• Identify the name, its creator(s), year(s) and era of creation, period (style), and location of the (or a single) work.

Research the Building and its Era / Period:

Use books and web resources. www.greatbuildings.com is a good place to start

• What design era was the structure created in Renaissance, Northern Baroque, Gothic, Modern, Post-Structuralist, Post-Modern?
• Illustrate and report on your understanding of the work's purpose and significance... you might do this by identifying , describing, and illustrating the physical characteristics that make the work unique, innovative, or historically significant. Describe it externally and internally.
• GATHER IMAGES THAT ILLUSTRATE THESE POINTS

The Designer OR Comparisons:

• Outline some basic information about three other works by your architect.
• Or, if the designer is unknown, ccreate a page that draws comparisons to three other buildings that serve the same purpose. E.g. Hagia Sophia could be compared to Renaissance Catholic Cathedral, a Mosque, etc.
• Indicate the details about each work and write a couple sentences that tells us something of interest about the building (such as its intent or the politics surrounding the work).
• GATHER IMAGES THAT MODEL THESE POINTS

Glossary:

• Define and point to examples where you can apply 10 new words or terms you have learned from studying this period. Including a Glossary of Terms is favored.
• In your site and summary sheet, SHOW GRAPHIC EXAMPLES WHERE RELEVANT

*Record all information in a Pages or MSWORD file, including links. Back-up to your PC server.

Notes

• Review how you will be evaluated HERE
• This web site can be created in WIX.
• Use relevant information in an organized way that is engaging. AVOID AT ALL COSTS, jazzing up pages.
• More topic choices are listed on PAGE 183 of the Annotated Mona Lisa. You will find several copies of this in the Art room.

Design Topics (if an era or architect, select one major built environment to research and respond to)