SRV799 Built Environment Integrated Project - Assignment 1

Assignment 1

You are required to form groups of four people, and to register your group on the Deakin Cloud. You are advised to have a least one person with an architectural background, and one with a construction background. (Off-campus students are advised to join a group with on-campus students.)

You are then required to make a submission in response to the project brief, addressing the briefing constraints, but also supplementing your proposal with augmenting research that develops the brief more fully.

There are four aspects to the proposal that you need to address; each about two A4 pages maximum. These should be clear in concept, even if details and specifics are missing. These are:

• DESIGN: How will your proposal supply the needs of the orphanage?
• CONSTRUCTION: How will your proposal be built? What will it need?
• BUDGET: What will your proposal cost, and how will you keep the costs down?
• MODULARITY: How will you standardize the components of your buildings so as to make them versatile and adaptable to different uses and settings, even in different locations?

Your concept proposal should be submitted as a video as well as in a report. While the report will be written, with drawings and chart to supplement, as necessary, the video is an opportunity to express your thoughts orally. You are welcome to make the video as a team, or (especially in the case where there are off-campus students) you can produce individual segments and splice them into a whole. If you have concerns about how to make a video, please contact the Deakin IT support desk, or just look it up on YouTube.

We will review your videos in class and discuss you work in Session 2. Remember, your video will be critiqued by your colleagues. (For grading purposes, the video and report will have equal weighting.)

The fifth requirement is that you critically comment (constructively) on the work of two other groups with regards to these four criteria. (You can use the marking rubric as a guide.) You should provide one A4 page of comments for each group. You need to submit this both to the relevant groups and to the designated assessment drop box by 1/11/2016.