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 Adam Crewe posted on Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 04:52 pm
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What are the purposes of Stages 1 and 2?
The main purpose of Stage 1 is to provide a knockout round to determine which teams have the best proposals so they can progress to Stage 2.
In Stage 1 you will develop your proposals with the experts’ advice. At the end of Stage 1 your proposal will be judged by the posters that you produce. You must convey the most important points on these posters, so good communication through images and text is really important for your posters.
In Stage 2, you will be preparing for the final where you will present your proposals to a judging panel, and actually construct a model of your building to be tested on the shaking-table. During this stage, you can modify and develop your proposal and you may also wish to build and test some trial model buildings.
For the final, your proposal will be judged from your presentation, so good verbal communication at this stage is really important as well as any text and images you use, in for example a Powerpoint presentation.
The model construction will test your ability to work as a team to ensure that you are sufficiently organised to complete your model in the limited time.
The shaking-table tests of your model will be used to judge the technical design for your building and the quality of its construction. |
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| Adam Crewe posted on Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 04:52 pm
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How do the judging for Stages 1 and 2 relate?
The Stage 1 judging is completely separate from the Stage 2 judging. When judging your presentations and models at Stage 2, we will not consider the score for your Stage 1 submission. |
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| Adam Crewe posted on Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 04:53 pm
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Can we amend our Stage 1 proposal if we progress to Stage 2?
Yes. You can modify your proposal and your designs if you wish. During Stage 2, you have the opportunity to do more research and to test the design of your model. Your findings may lead you to decide that changes are required.
You MUST keep to you original designs, and only work on improving them.
DO NOT make any major changes to your designs. The overall shape of your builing must remain the same.
However, you can for example:
- make changes to the bracing that don't alter the architectural apperance too much;
- make slabs bigger or smaller and add or remove material from the slab.
Think of it like this. Mr Dunwell liked the design you submitted in Stage 1. That is the one he wants to see developed. |
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