Unit 2B: Spatial Strategies

Brief

In meeting the assessment requirements for this unit, spatial strategies can be interpreted as and take the form of: time-based sequences, spatial narratives, scripts, storyboards, plans, schedules of work and programmes, in order to propose expanded cinematic/spatial proposals for the site. The group activities will be both practical and theoretical and will include site surveys in a range of media and group research seminars aimed at developing group and individual approaches presented by the site and the contemporary contexts for practice in spatial design, film and related cross disciplinary practices.

Learning Outcomes

• Formulate a planning strategy that provides a functional resolution of a brief with a clear social programme;

• Design a complex sequence of spaces;

• Communicate a design proposition through exploratory drawings;

• Develop a three-dimensional understanding of a detail junction;

• Negotiate decision-making as part of a larger design team;

• Analyse an existing site condition;

• Critically evaluate a range of design options and devise a group strategy for the production of design information.

Portfolios

In developing this ongoing portfolio, you are encouraged to use your creative practice as a space and means whereby to ‘digest’ some of the material that we will be engaging with in class as well as to begin developing