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1 ARBE6201 ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT 2020_ASSIGNMENT 2 ARBE6201 2020: Assignment 2 – Project Framework This assignment is about the life of a project – involving the management of people, time, change, documents, controls and constraints, and communication. In any project, time and people are always critical. You can interpret the components in several ways in order that the documents reflect your own project – as with Assignment 1, this may be anywhere on a spectrum from the conventional, to the speculative, to the entirely fictional. The documents can reflect imagined relationships or your actual semester plans for 2019 Design 9/10. In this assignment we are going to address some of the foundational aspects of running a project and of communicating as architects with others involved in bringing it to life. Together, these documents constitute a reflection on the feasibility of the project. Component 1: a revised brief document – maximum 3 pages (25%) This should distil – without background information – your spatial and performative brief. It should involve refinements from the last submission and a clear architectural agenda. Remember that the brief is a dynamic document: it should be sharpening and becoming more detailed with time (accommodation schedules/room data sheets?), and, if applicable, freshly agreed with your client. There should probably be an increase in the level of detail and specificity. There may have been changes to the scope or focus of the project, and some elements might have been completed, reconsidered or removed. The reassessment of your project brief constitutes a moment to take stock of your project and re-situate your thinking. David Shrigley Component 2: A drawing indicating project constraints – 1 page (25%) This may be a reiteration of your site drawing, or could be a different drawing type. This time, it should include information that actively demonstrates constraint. This might be in the form of planning controls (setbacks, height restrictions), policy (heritage or demolition controls, formal restrictions), other codes (SEPP, health laws, and restrictions pertaining to your particular project type or land use). It could be physical constraints (rock outbreak, cones of vision, biological/ecological protection zones, overshadowing). There is a good chance this drawing will need to incorporate the third dimension, particularly if it is dealing with volumes, envelopes, and so on. Might it be an axonometric? An isometric? 1916 Zoning Laws, Manhattan. Illustrations of possible forms by Hugh Ferris 2 ARBE6201 ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT 2020_ASSIGNMENT 2 You do not have to include a design proposal to make this drawing: it is enough to map/visualise the constraints themselves as a drawing (this is owing to the fact that not all students are undertaking design projects for this course, and I do not expect you to design something for Management). On the left, we have a valid demonstration of the zoning laws in principle, and on the right, from Ferris, designs that would comply with them. Either is fine, but both ought to contain the ‘setback line’ and reference the relevant legislative control. Do not just draw your proposition: This will not tell me that you understand the constraint or elucidate what you are responding to. You must identify the constraint or force clearly on your drawing – through lines/shading and so on, as well as through clearly notated reference to the code you are responding to. You could draw something else to demonstrate your compliance with some other constraint. It could be of a small scale. If it is a detail telling me you’ve complied with a stair code in the NCC, for instance, name the code and the document it comes from. If it is a ground level with universal access, show me an isometric that expresses the ramps and fluid floor plate. Indicate the ratio of fall and identify the code. Beth George, diagram of visual field Typical constraints for a real-world, Newcastle project at the point of Development Approval would include: Local council requirements, LEP zone type., LEP height limit, LEP Floor Space Ratio (FSR), mines guidelines, Flood Design Level and Maximum Flood Level, BAL rating, Rise in Storeys (NCC), SEPP 65, BASIX, Heritage compliance… It could, of course, be far more experimental or esoteric. What this drawing must do regardless of its nature is reflect your response or adherence to a constraint or set of constraints. Component 3: People – maximum 1 page (15%) Outline the key stakeholders and their relationships to your project. Who are the project team? What do they want from the project? What do you or need from them? What are the lines of communication? In terms of governance, what is the structure proposed for running your project and what are the reporting mechanisms? Do you know what the procurement method is? Or the contract type? You might provide a stakeholder management plan, a project governance plan/chart, a written description of roles and responsibilities, or a diagram of the procurement structure with relationships both contractual and in terms of communication. OR it could be something else to do with people. Minutes? Consultation plan? Agenda? Whatever you do, it will not be alone. You can come up with any form of document or diagram that elucidates how people (and this could include non-human users!) have a bearing on your project. 3 ARBE6201 ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT 2020_ASSIGNMENT 2 Component 4: Time – maximum 1 page (15%) Describe a time constraint/plan for the project of some kind. This might be a program of the architecture delivery, or a broader timeline for the schema. It is not a construction program! Architects do not prepare these. It might contain key points of submission/approval and so on. It could contain contingencies/deviations: you could account for change or alternative pathways through the project. It could incorporate long term management, or atypical relationships to time, is staging relevant to your project? Seasons? Deep time? Again, we always have to work with time constraints and deadlines. What are these for your project? This component may make sense as a diagram, or could be written/visually represented in another way. David Shrigley Component 5: Letter – maximum 2 pages (20%) At least one of these components must be paired with a letter. This time, there is no pro forma letter. You should imagine a situation in which you are communicating one of the other 4 components to an appropriate party. It could be council, the client, neighbours, community groups, a contractor, a consultant… There may be an appropriate Guide Letter for you on Acumen, or you may have to be inventive. To whom would you communicate one of the documents above? What do they need to be informed of? This must be a professional letter, as with Assignment 1. David Shrigley, Letter to Susanne Schmidt Submission Is online to Blackboard by midnight on Friday June 19th as per the Course Outline. Please submit one PDF only, with your components matching the sequence of this brief, ie: Revised Brief Drawing People Time Letter.