Task_6-A – rewriting

ARPL 3003       Contemporary Issues within architecture         21.4.15

Task_6-A – rewriting

Premise

Rewrite task_3—5 using the following:

§  plan

§  section

§  elevation

§  line + shape -- to detect what we see and develop design tools

§  context -- terms and conditions of urban phenomena

The task is to retell your narrative from place/space to a traffic interchange whilst pointing out spaces which lack spatial performance and are subpar or hostile for people interaction, which will inform Task_6-B – recommendations.  In your narrative you must critically assess these four interrelated concepts:

§  structure

§  form

§  space

§  performance

Most urban systems display some kind of spatial ‘ordering system’.  In other words, human activities seldom occur randomly in space.  Rather, they respond to a ‘logic’ that is contained within a spatial ‘ordering system’, even if this ‘logic’ is in conflict with (or different from) ‘official understandings’ of a place.  Thus the aim of this phase of the project is thus to explore, uncover, and critically assess the existing spatial ‘ordering system’ your place + space as you narrate your journey within the city.

For this component of the project you must explicitly articulate the following:

1.     ‘structure’

refers to the underlying spatial, environmental, social, economic, and political relationships which form the anatomy or skeleton of a settlement, and which set up the ‘logic’ to which human activities respond.

2.     ‘form’ refers to the three dimensional manifestations of structure

Deliverables

A3 landscape sheets of your project.  These may be standalone sheets or a pdf file.

Hand in:           4 May 2015, 12 noon

Task_6-A+B submissions make up the last two phases of the research report which is 60% of your final mark.

Programme	MATRIX		RESEARCH REPORT				ORAL
Task	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7
Mark	10	10	10	10	20	20	20