Bachelor Studio Project - Discarded Public Shelter
1. Goal
The student shall become aware, experience and understand that ultimately all design becomes waste, but that waste is simultaneously a source of material and inspiration for new creation and artifacts.
2. Task
Discover and collect wasted and discarded materials and design and construct a simple, stable (sun) shelter for 5 people in a public city environment. Each student may select a typical situation in the urban fabric as a context for his/her individual shelter. The shelter shall represent a prototype that might be reproduced all over YangPu District or Shanghai City. The shelter shall be built by hand and require no construction machinery. The shelter’s structure, skin, outfit and connections shall be built out of recycled, discarded, obsolete or waste materials as much as possible.
3. Process
The project lasts 2.5 weeks. First week is group work; second and third weeks are individual work.
Week 1:
Discover and collect discarded materials. The most suitable materials are such that arise in large quantities, are stable and durable and have currently no way of being reused, recycled or biodegraded. Simultaneously, research suitable cases of similar projects and collect ideas for locations, functions, materials, designs and construction. Walk through the nearby urban fabric and study the requirements and opportunities for your shelter.
Week 2:
Decide on one or more materials for structure, skin and connections. Study and develop your structure, skin and connections. Conceive and improve a space and functions suitable for your location and the potential users. Investigate and test your ideas by sketching and by creating conceptual process models (no computer allowed! no digital 3D models!).
Week 3:
Construct your shelter prototype at scale 1:1 on campus. Fine-tune its function(s), form, structure, construction process, etc. use sketches, diagrams, model photos and reality photos to create a little explanatory brochure/booklet which you may fix onto your shelter (computer allowed for all content and layout of the book). The brochure should explain and illustrate how it would look like in a real urban place and why you chose that situation. It should also explain the criteria below, which will be used for grading your submittal:
4. Criteria:
5. Final Submittal
The final submittal comprises a completed 1:1 constructed prototype of the sun shelter, as well as a handed-in explanation document from each individual student.
Deadline is Thursday, September 27, 2012, 09:30. Late submittals are not accepted.
Please do not hesitate to ask if you have questions. We are looking forward to working with you.
The PPT below with studio shelter outcomes is an extract from a presentation Pius gave at the EcoDesignFair 2013 in Shanghai:
The student shall become aware, experience and understand that ultimately all design becomes waste, but that waste is simultaneously a source of material and inspiration for new creation and artifacts.
2. Task
Discover and collect wasted and discarded materials and design and construct a simple, stable (sun) shelter for 5 people in a public city environment. Each student may select a typical situation in the urban fabric as a context for his/her individual shelter. The shelter shall represent a prototype that might be reproduced all over YangPu District or Shanghai City. The shelter shall be built by hand and require no construction machinery. The shelter’s structure, skin, outfit and connections shall be built out of recycled, discarded, obsolete or waste materials as much as possible.
3. Process
The project lasts 2.5 weeks. First week is group work; second and third weeks are individual work.
Week 1:
Discover and collect discarded materials. The most suitable materials are such that arise in large quantities, are stable and durable and have currently no way of being reused, recycled or biodegraded. Simultaneously, research suitable cases of similar projects and collect ideas for locations, functions, materials, designs and construction. Walk through the nearby urban fabric and study the requirements and opportunities for your shelter.
Week 2:
Decide on one or more materials for structure, skin and connections. Study and develop your structure, skin and connections. Conceive and improve a space and functions suitable for your location and the potential users. Investigate and test your ideas by sketching and by creating conceptual process models (no computer allowed! no digital 3D models!).
Week 3:
Construct your shelter prototype at scale 1:1 on campus. Fine-tune its function(s), form, structure, construction process, etc. use sketches, diagrams, model photos and reality photos to create a little explanatory brochure/booklet which you may fix onto your shelter (computer allowed for all content and layout of the book). The brochure should explain and illustrate how it would look like in a real urban place and why you chose that situation. It should also explain the criteria below, which will be used for grading your submittal:
4. Criteria:
- Does the shelter adapt to the Shanghai context and create a unity with its surrounding (functionally, formally, culturally, in scale and proportions, in color, etc.)?
- Are the employed materials suitable/ fit to be recycled in this way?
- Do the structure and its connections suit the employed materials and the form of the shelter?
- Is the structure statically effective, efficient, sound and safe?
- Is the shelter functional, relevant, useful, convenient, ergonomic…?
- Does the shelter protect people effectively from the sun (and/or wind, rain, cold…) when necessary?
- Is the shelter aesthetically pleasing, inviting, attractive, welcoming...?
5. Final Submittal
The final submittal comprises a completed 1:1 constructed prototype of the sun shelter, as well as a handed-in explanation document from each individual student.
Deadline is Thursday, September 27, 2012, 09:30. Late submittals are not accepted.
Please do not hesitate to ask if you have questions. We are looking forward to working with you.
The PPT below with studio shelter outcomes is an extract from a presentation Pius gave at the EcoDesignFair 2013 in Shanghai:
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