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AA Diploma Unit 03 2020 – 2021 Extended Brief

The Speculativity of Ecology

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Jonas Lundberg & Andrew Yau

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Diploma Unit 03 Jonas Lundberg & Andrew Yau The Speculativity of Ecology 2020 - 2021

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image: Lingfei Zhao, Wobble Porosity


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ABSTRACT

The Speculativity of Ecology

“The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Our built and natural environment is changing at an exponential rate, and our cities, new and old, advanced or emerging, are facing incredible challenges to adapt, cultivate and regenerate intertwined relationships between technology, social culture, and the ecological environment as a whole. While we are expanding many existing cities, we are also creating new ones at the expense of the natural environment and future generations. It is at this critical ecological juncture between resources, natural environment, culture, social resilience, and technology that we aim to rethink urban formation and inhabitation, as well as the architecture that produces it. As of July 2020, the world population is on course to reach 7.8 billion1, and more than 56% is concentrated in urban areas. Global affluence and consumption currently demand 1.75 times of what planet Earth2 is providing and absorbing. As a consequence, we explore and reassess our culture of consumption, and the use of renewable resources and technology, as a provocative design opportunity to speculate and pursue alternative architectural futures and their very experiential and physical manifestation. We continue the ambition to produce unique ecological lifestyles as a consequence of architectural and urban design that rebuilds ecological reserves and increases individual and construction biocapacity. The optimistic and sometimes naive belief that the design of architecture and its physical presence takes an active role in re-shaping our cities and the future ecological frontier is central in creating an explorative and innovative design culture in the unit. The work of architecture not only address the carbon footprint, resource management, energy provision, waste absorption, and urban biodiversity, but also the ideological framework oscillating between environmental reality and socio-cultural, and maybe political-economic novelty. Together we will develop design alternatives and new spatial sensibility, via digital, physical and visual constructs, beyond rational solutions and romantic impressions. After all, we learned that we are capable of keeping the air fresh in our cities, and the canal water clean in Venice3 during lockdown! Unit Staff Jonas Lundberg and Andrew Yau are educators and members of Urban Future Organization, an international architectural practice, and design research collaborative. Urban Future has won a number of international competitions and exhibited its work globally. Currently, they are working on micro to macro-scale urban and architectural projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

1 United Nations, 2019, World Population Prospects 2 Global Footprint Network, 2019, National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts 3 The Economist, 26/03/2020, “The epidemic provides a chance to do good by the climate.”


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................................................... 2

Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 4

1.0 Diploma Unit 03 [former Diploma 16 & Experimental 17] ......................................................................... 6

1..1 The Speculativity of Ecology ...................................................................................................................................................... 6

1.2 Ethos ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6

1.3 Undertaking .................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

1.4 Technique & Tooling .................................................................................................................................................................... 7

2.0 Speculative Ecology & New Nature .................................................................................................... 8

2.1 Urban Sample – ReGenerative and Resilient Environment ................................................................................................. 8

2.2 City, Technology & Digitisation ................................................................................................................................................. 9

2.3 Design Brief .................................................................................................................................................................................... 9

2.4 Building Contents & Typologies ................................................................................................................................................ 9

2.5 4th & 5th Year Students ......................................................................................................................................................... 10

2.6 5th Year Students ..................................................................................................................................................................... 10

3.0 Outcome & Assessment .................................................................................................................... 11

3.1 Design Qualities ......................................................................................................................................................................... 11

4.0 Deliverables ........................................................................................................................................... 12

4.1 Documentation .......................................................................................................................................................................... 12

4.2 Digital Constructs & Immersive Experience ....................................................................................................................... 13

4.3 Physical Constructs ................................................................................................................................................................... 13

4.4 Screen Presentation .................................................................................................................................................................. 13

4.5 Architectural Aesthetics & Effects ......................................................................................................................................... 13

4.6 Exhibition ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 13

4.7 Multi-Media & Multi-Reality ..................................................................................................................................................... 13

5.0 Organization .......................................................................................................................................... 15

5.1 Calendar & timetable ................................................................................................................................................................ 15

5.2 Study Trips & City Visit ........................................................................................................................................................... 16

5.3 Term 1 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 18

5.4 Winter Term Break .................................................................................................................................................................. 21

5.5 Term 2 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 23

5.6 Spring Term Break .................................................................................................................................................................... 27

5.7 Term 3 .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 28

6.0 Reading List ............................................................................................................................................ 33


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image: Young Chae Ahn, Nuisance Flooding and The Floating Market


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THE ECOLOGIC GENRE “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster Fuller 1.0 DIPLOMA UNIT 03 Diploma Unit 03 is interested in producing an intense and integrated design relationship between architecture, ecology and the speculative urban futures. We place us, the people, back to the centre of architecture as an ecologic effect & experience producing an alternative architectural aesthetic, perception and sensibility beyond the conventional practice of performative design. The shift towards the production of a new Ecologic Social Culture is aiming to provoke fundamental but necessary changes in our way of life and future living. The research interest of the unit evolves from a longstanding and super exciting ecological agenda from Diploma 16 at the AA Diploma School for almost a decade and a half, and Experimental 17 last year. We are obsessed with architecture as a catalyst and positive driver for urban change and development. We seek to exploit the evolving role of architecture, its causes and affects, amidst our predicament of urban densification, land exhaustion, overconsumption and climate change. 1.1 THE SPECULATIVITY OF ECOLOGY The Speculativity of Ecology is aiming to explore the possibility to conceptualise and theorise the regenerative and resilient co-evolution between architectural production, urban formation, and our very relationship with Nature. The motivation to produce architectural affects and experience by the living beings that inhabit them seeks to speculate the complexity expanding from some of the longterm and more known ecologic drivers and architectural design factors. We continue to exploit Ecological and Construction Technology to radically reshape our living environment and urban life. We believe faithfully the act of building as the prime medium of architecture conditioned not only by the physical construct of materials and production technology but also the experiential effect and socio-cultural affiliation. The aim is to liberate Architecture from a limited palette of building construction and technology

defined by architectural conventions where the local building industry is slow to embrace change and evolve its traditions and toolsets that limit the way we conceive of design. Besides, our basic design and representation techniques have been complemented with a vast array of new design mediums and technologies that straddle the abstract space of digital reality, and the physical and material world. Diploma Unit 03 explores the opportunities as well as the constraints of this emergent condition in an attempt to redefine and rediscover new grounds for architectural design and manifestation based on an ecological understanding of our living environment and nature. We aim to produce unique ecologic experience and reduce the ecological footprint of the built environment, and in that process challenge the conventional notions of object, enclosure, form, envelope, content, public domain, infrastructure, lifestyle, community, neighbourhood and ultimately future living. 1.2 ETHOS Diploma Unit 03 firmly believes in architectural intelligence contributing to the evolution of our discipline by embracing ecologic living, technology, building construction and conceptions of form and experience. We harbour the simple belief that the design of our physical environment, contrary to what many scholars say, can have an impact on larger issues. The development of new lifestyles is instrumental in our survival and shaping our co-evolutionary relationship to our built and natural environment. Diploma Unit 03 develops architectural novelty manifested in and through physical constructs, large format drawings, organised and graphic documentation, animation and MR output producing architectural effect(s) in the ecologic genre. We aim to assist students to develop individual design repertoire, verbal and graphical communication, technical skills and abilities. Our explicit pedagogic interest is to work on how to evolve the way architects engage with design techniques to create new content and experiential affects charged with the potential for innovation.


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For example in music, you can be great at music theory and playing an instrument but this doesn’t mean that you are a composer. The same holds true in architecture. It is the ambition of the unit to work with all the students as a team to develop a disciplinary understanding of architecture and evolve design techniques and abilities and ultimately how disciplinary knowledge and rigorous design technique can be the springboard in the creation of new architectural opportunities and ecological affects. 1.3 UNDERTAKING Diploma Unit 03 investigates how ecologic subjects, formal qualities, technologies, infrastructural intelligence, human inhabitation, spatial effect, urban formation and speculative nature, fuelled by emerging instruments of design, communication and production, can inform architecture. The aim is to help demystify the transformative capacity of architecture in the actualization of building design projects with a distinct sense of aesthetic, quality and sensibility. Projects are designed and developed in collaboration with external partners, experts and consultants. Moving outside of a controlled academic environment, the unit crosses

the path of speculative design research with other disciplines and expertise. 1.4 DESIGN TECHNIQUES & TOOLING The school and Core Studies programme offers a range of tools such as 3D modelling and visualisation applications, traditional 3D printing and more advanced robotic fabrication application, photographic and video capturing and editing software, digitisation with multi-channels LiDAR devices and HTC or MS Hololens MR environment. Please do take advantage of these. Model making both digitally and physically is central to the unit work as the architectural construct through necessary negotiation of making, testing and tooling. We don’t expect everyone in the studio to acquire expert skills but to everyone to be introduced and be able to use a range of basic digital techniques. It is possible to organise additional or specialist session(s) when necessary. We also work on the way design deliverables are presented and communicated for dissemination and publishing. Students need to develop their own design log and thesis, Thesis Abstract, Progress Files and Research Files, for the duration of the course.

image: Kevin Ka Yu Chan, Magnetonic - Lively Changes Beyond Form Students Voted Honour 2019


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The Speculativity of Ecology “…I think the role of architecture…but, if there’s going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this, isn’t this amazing? It has to interactively involve them other than as spectators … it has to engage them as creators.” - Lebbeus Woods, Shopfront Gallery 31st May 2007 Event: Subtopia Meets Lebbeus Woods [written by Bryan Finoki – Subtopia Blog 8th June 2007] 2.0 SPECULATIVE ECOLOGY & NEW NATURE At Diploma Unit 03, we believe in building as the primary medium for architecture where the construct of a building, a community, a city or even nature, plays a critical and essential role in facilitating our way of living, the experience, the sensibility and affects. We would like to explore radically the ecological motivation in architectural & urban design to formulate a new, regenerative and resilient relationship between our built environment and nature. A relationship projects a new way of living for our survival and our future and rethinks our cities in this era of drastic transformation of working and urban cultures. We believe it is important to consider carbon positive design, ecological production, construction and infrastructural design and techniques in order to cultivate alternatives. We aim to explore design, construction, infrastructure and urban formation processes beyond plan-based geometries and other parallel projections, perspectives, collages and similar design techniques, or even the conventional computation design in the last two decades. We seek an architectural and urban production that is capable of provoking new ways of urban living and nature experience, hence a new Living Ecology, a model of and a model for the future. The anticipated design outcome embraces multiple levels of design ambitions oscillating between object, envelope, structure, interiority, construction and materiality, articulated poché, volumetric depth, infrastructure, urban living, and the necessary exuberance, towards a projection of ecologic novelty and a new brave future. In September 2020, two international organisations published significant reports on climate changes and identified the decline as a critical threat to Biodiversity and hence Humanity. The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report by United Nation Environmental Programme attempts to rethink possible action plan for policymakers as the international communities have missed Aichi Biodiversity Target & UN Sustainable Development

Goals; while the Living Planet Report by World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly known as World Wildlife Fund) restates the relationship between biodiversity, health, food security, and global economy, and promotes alternative models for land-use, ocean scenarios and interconnectivity. It is beyond any doubt that the building industry is the world’s largest polluting agent. Diploma Unit 03 is exploring innovative alternatives in construction, design, infrastructure, public domain and urban formation towards a new ecologic lifestyle and future. We seek an evolution of the global ecological and environmental paradigms of culture and economy beyond green-washing design. If it is possible to consider architecture as a form of craft, it is, therefore, possible to celebrate intuition in its very production beyond the practice of autocratic construction and formulate a complex relationship with our environment and nature. Architectural innovation is no longer simply to be responsive, but an opportunity to be provocative. Construction and technological innovation are necessary to be more sensorial, experiential and effectual, and hence architectural. 2.1 URBAN SAMPLE - REGENERATIVE AND RESILIENT ENVIRONMENT The aim is to develop a reGenerative and resilient architectural intervention in a dense urban context, capable of transforming an existing situation, adaptable to future changes and able to incorporate technological innovation that revolutionised our current lifestyles and the relationship with our immediate surroundings and nature. It is also a question how our cities expand with necessary social, economic and cultural agility and flexibility to manage the very biodiversity, resources, energy and waste management, as well as the habitual practice of overconsumption. The architectural project itself is a design challenge, from human scale to an area of one hectare (100m x 100m) in size, we call it an urban sample, to co-evolve


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the tension between urban living and ecological undertaking. It is important for the design thesis to embody a positive ecological footprint to regenerate our ever-expanding and intensifying urban environment, a city of your own choosing. Diploma Unit 03 provokes the possibility to put “more” back into nature via our built environment and maybe a new notion of Proto-Urban conditions instigated by Lebbeus Woods. 2.2 TECHNOLOGY & MULTIPLE REALITY As world population rises, it is believed that 68% of the global population will be living in cities today by 2050 according to UN projection while the emerging fourth Industrial Revolution in the creation of Smart Cities will have a direct effect on both our economy and our living environment. Having said that, more and more people in urban areas are at risk due to the increasing frequency and severity of climate change related threats, and it is getting worse. The World Economic Forum issued six directives on sustainable energy resources earlier this year, and two are essential to building industry and urban development namely the ideas of the decentralised energy system and renewable. In June, WEF also announced their Technology Pioneers programme to promote innovations and future technologies. This is aiming to develop future technology to tackle the issues of biodiversity, resources, energy and waste with inclusion strategy beyond the existing slow green economy; and opens up a new way of working beyond traditional networking and feedback mechanisms. Diploma Unit 03 explores this opportunity to hybridise architectural design and production processes with various digitisation interfaces aiming to coevolve our works, design techniques and theoretical positioning beyond the simple performance targets and eco-mimicry. The rise of AI and digital reality question the physicality of architectural reality, as we know. The possibility to oscillate between the physical and virtual domain has not only become reality via MR devices, but it has also raised the stake how much more we can do for our physical environment and how our lifestyle and experience could be rearticulated, towards an ecologic living in our case. This technical evolution is drastically going to change the way we think about scale, weight, structure and inhabitation. Inevitably it will also change the way we design and produce tectonic objects and spaces, hence the experience and inhabitation. The material evolution is also bound to bring about unprecedented change since the start

of iron, steel and Ferro cement construction. We would like to engage with the conversation about the new limits at the frontier of what is physically possible and that challenges sensible notions of scale and appropriation. 2.3 DESIGN BRIEF The brief challenges students to experiment with architectural design in objects, form, geometry, tectonics, urban formation, infrastructures, and public spaces, and develop a radical architectural project with ecologic construction and technologic innovation, aiming to transform our way of urban living as well as our relationship with nature. It is critical to reimagining the craft of architecture by rethinking production, construction and assembly intelligence with the environment in mind. Through tectonic experimentation and technological innovation, it is the ambition of Diploma Unit 03 to reformulate ecologically the role of architecture, infrastructure, public domains and eventually our cities towards a new regenerative and resilient relationship with community, neighbourhood and nature. We are curious about the opportunity to interrogate the boundaries of emerging architectural practices and productions. We are equally interested in making connections with innovative consultants and specialists, and the possible amazing knowledge exchanges. Diploma Unit 03 is focusing on what the new and emerging ecological construction tectonics, technologies and infrastructures that will do to architecture and urban environment at present and in the near future, and principally not going too deep into material science and research. We seek to address the design opportunities innate to tectonic, infrastructural, urban and public elements and features where the notion of thickness, the sense of enclosure, or the inhabitation of interiority are all matters of design consequences. Together with innovative technologies, we seek the opportunity to challenge the conventions of architectural languages of the past two decades and speculate a new notion of mass and volume beyond aggregation and assembly. 2.4 CONTENTS & TYPOLOGIES We are not suggesting any typology or content but rather aim for you to address the need and the purpose of classifying buildings in the search for a new breed of architecture that still has no names. The underlying assumption is that you work with


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dense urban context and these situations evolve over time. Diploma Unit 03 is attempting to define the project outcomes into architectural and urban-type with the generic classifications. The project outcome may include a diverse range of programs and be a combination of different building types and structural types. The common denominator is that they look at architecture in a city positioned between dense urban fabrics. With the advent of new technologies, materials, constructions some type of structures that previously were deemed too expensive and wasteful of resources may once again be feasible. Future visions of the past suddenly appear less daunting and impossible than before. 2.5 4th & 5th YEAR STUDENTS Urban Object, Design and Construction Technologies, Urban Formation, Infrastructure, Life-Community-City, Nature and New Ways of Living towards an explicit and expressive aesthetics and sensibility provoking a new SPECULATIVE PROTO-URBAN ECOLOGY between cities and nature, capable to address the challenge of the current urban growth and for the near future contingent on new possibilities in designing infrastructure and public realm. Diploma Unit 03 investigates, ecologically and experientially, the role of architectural design, the architect and the inhabitants, in our cities and urban living. All students formulate new ideas in architectural design, space, techniques, material, ecologic technologies, infrastructure, urban growth and relationship with nature; and seek opportunities to formulate new architectural experience, community, and new forms of inhabitation, community and urban formation that may transform our future.

2.6 5th YEAR STUDENTS Urban Object, Design and Construction Technologies, Urban Formation, Infrastructure, Life-Community-City + Nature + New Ways of Living + Speculative Futures towards an explicit and expressive aesthetics and sensibility provoking a new SPECULATIVE PROTO-URBAN ECOLOGY between cities and nature, capable to address the challenge of the current urban growth and for the near future contingent on new possibilities in designing infrastructure and public realm. All 5th year students formulate and develop one (or more) speculative and long-term vision for a new way of urban living through architectural design. Diploma Unit 03 believes in building as the prime medium for

architecture. The very centre of our interests is about speculation and experimentation that open up new possibilities to rethink the current trends of ecologic architecture and nature. Collectively the work of Diploma 3 becomes an Architectural Manifesto for an ecological and resilient way of living. All 5th year students are encouraged to further their design work and thesis projects to be competing in various ecological architectural competitions such as Holcim Awards. image: Fang Lee,, Reclaiming Oasis – Water Harvesting


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THE DELIVERABLES & OUTCOME

“Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends, and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.” - Oscar Niemeyer 3.0 OUTCOME & ASSESSMENT We expect all students to participate actively in tutorials and reviews. Each student needs to manage their own design process and experiments, digital and physical, as well as developing their own brief and design framework for the project. Each student is to prepare their work according to the list of deliverables for discussion weekly, any change is to be agreed prior to tutorials, reviews, juries and tables, including physical constructs, minimum two large format drawings, thesis abstracts, graphical documentation Progress File which is a central part of understanding the progression and it is an integral part of the assessment process, City Investigation and Consultancy File documenting all the investigation and communication log with consultants, and Research File as a collection of raw investigative and research materials. It is critical for each student to organise the unit work in an iterative manner, whereby thesis, design and output co-evolve in parallel with topical investigations, analysis and learnings. The objective is for each student to develop an individual architectural design repertoire, culminating in the production of an architectural project concluded and manifested in a singular large-scale physical construct, two large format drawings, digitisation & MR experiences, progress files, research files, city files, and clear written thesis abstract. 3.1 DESIGN QUALITIES The unit aim is for each project, the final physical construct, the large format drawings, the progress files and the city I&C files, plus any possible MR content to make a disciplinary contribution in how ecologic design intelligence is bound to change our building industry, socio-cultural behaviours and the way we live and experience both architecture and cities.

The project is deploying a host of digital tools and techniques for design modelling, production and curating in architectural projects. The project outcome is assessed primarily for its criticality and radicality in parallel to its rigour, instrumentality, novelty, and for its design qualities against its very polemical challenges. We are using the following cannon as a lens to understand, discuss and assess design qualities through the year and especially for the final project outcome. Construct - an act to form something Content - is the information and experiences that

are directed toward an audience, expression required

Depth - the perceivable difference between a top surface and the physical or implied bottom surface

Effect - an experiential change as is a consequence of an architectural action

Envelope - a container of content and effect in synthetic and analytic geometry

Exteriority - an ontological quality of being exterior Exuberance - a cultural quality of being full of energy,

excitement, and celebration Interiority - an ontological quality of being interior Mood - the atmosphere or pervading tone of

something inducing or suggestive of a particular sensibility or state of mind

Object - a unified construct, architectural and physical, cannot be reduced either downwards to their parts or upwards to their effects.

Poché - an area of an architectural plan or section that are filled in

Structure - both a physical and ideological mechanism upholding an Object

Volume - a notion of three-dimensional space, possibly quantifiable


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“The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.” – Bjarke Ingels 4.0 DELIVERABLES Due to the complexity of the undertaking of an iterative design project, the necessary deliverables to deal with the range of scale and diverse type of information are mixed. Diploma Unit 03 sees the design portfolio as a collection of documents and physical output in varying scales. Each document and model to scale has a specific role to fill in the overall thesis portfolio. 4.1 DOCUMENTATION The documentation of any project is a key aspect of being a good architectural student, researcher and ultimately an architect. Please take uttermost care in how you compile the various documents that make up your overall design portfolio. Prepare to photograph your work in progress and have a digital camera and a tripod at hand, in order to take properly lit photographs and videos of the model and construction process, the life in the studio, study models, mock-ups, prototypes and the final result. These photos are also serving as the basis for your design log, the projects review, your technical studies document etc. and will be part of assessing the qualities of your projects and influence the assessment of the project outcome. Urban Sample drawing and Meta-drawings The drawings are both design and communication devices to develop drawing and graphic techniques for visual communication. The work is refined and made to a publishable quality. They are part of the experimentation beyond planar design conventions focusing normally on the design development of the following: 1. Urban Sample - a testing ground of one-hectare

area (100mx100m) for your architectural design thesis

2. The design experimentation on future proof environmental resilient conscious production & design

3. The innovation and inhabitation of the proposed reGenerative tectonic prototypes and its feedback mechanism;

4. The reGenerative production technology, process and properties;

5. The resilient construction technology, process and contributions;

6. The operation of the project and the changes in our way of living;

7. The components and critical infrastructure manifestation of the ecological proto-urban conditions and its regenerative and resilient lifestyle.

8. The ecological relationship and tension between individual, community and cities.

Progress File Each student is required to keep a design log (graphical design journal/diary) that we refer to as a Progress File. This file should contain all individual project contributions, digital learning, research and experiments and an account of your own individual contribution in each term activity. Please keep it updated on a daily/weekly basis and it is an integral part to discuss how the work evolves and for us to understand each individual contribution at the end of each phase. The progress file is typically a 30 x 30 cm document generally a good measure is around 4-5 pages a week. The project should include design experiments, process-oriented drawings, relevant and critical investigations, production processes, documentation of mock-ups and physical constructs as well as detailed drawings. Research File All project investigations and research; references and readings should be collated in a document that we refer to as a research file. This file is used also to give substance and to support your arguments when you are presenting. Typically the research file is an A4 binder that can be bound as a book at the end of the year. City Investigation & Consultancy File (with Photographic Survey) This file is produced to record all your pre-trip and on-site communication (if possible but not required due to pandemic situation) or similar, on and offline communications, observations, interviews, and information from your CITY VISIT trip. It is an important document shaping your understanding of the city of your choice, your consultancy, collaboration, the local stakeholders, communities, scholarly details and possibly support from authorities.


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The format would normally follow the progress file in 30 x 30 cm template. Environmental and Technical Studies Report & Technical Drawings The environmental and technical studies are central to the unit work. All students prepare to discuss the necessary support from the ETS studies team tutors, and/or other external technical consultants and specialists through Term 2. Unit Book – Whole Earth Catalogue (for Projects Review) The unit is collectively designing and producing a 100+ pages book that collects all the research, designs, processes and final design outcome. The book includes text from both students and staff, and it is self-published on ISSU or similar, and it is inspired by the original Whole Earth Catalogue. 4.2 DIGITAL CONSTRUCTS & IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES Due to the experimental nature of the design, development and production process, we are introducing the process of digitisation where we try to engage and interact with the design experiments with multiple and different conditions for how will experience and inhabiting MR environment differ from conventional architecture. It is important to digitise your work regularly through the year and your cities during CITY VISIT trip. Please store and keep safe your physical constructs and digital data as an integral part of your portfolio.

4.3 PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTS (start from Term 2) The unit work revolves around the production of physical constructs on a range of scale. The models should be made in exhibition quality and kept in a presentable state and be documented and photographed in preparation for the Progress Files, Projects Review publication and the Projects Review end of the year exhibition. Please pay attention to keeping all your physical constructs experiments whether they are successful or not. Please bear issues about how fabrication, material, production and construction processes are affected by scalar consideration and consider using alternative solutions if they behave more like they would in full scale.

4.4 SCREEN PRESENTATION A communication tool to organize the critical observations, considerations, narratives and parameters of your thesis and allow a swift delivery of relevant information for any third party to understand the framework and design decisions of your project. This is a critical device for every mini-review, jury, preview and final tables. Please allow proper presentation scripts and annotation throughout the presentation.

4.5 ARCHITECTURAL AESTHETICS The design and production processes often determine the visual appearance and spatial qualities. These form the very foundation for the aesthetic qualities of the projects. It is important to articulate and speculate the implication of these qualities as part of the projects from small details to large citywide effects. We encourage the design and production of large-scale physical constructs especially for 5th year students to exploit these opportunities. The physical constructs should work as evidence of design intelligence for both spatial qualities, tectonic innovation and processes, technological production and assembly (or lack of) logic; and is often an important part of the Environmental and Technical Studies submission and it is many times a requirement for being considered for Environmental and Technical Studies high pass panel. 4.6 EXHIBITION The Projects Review exhibition is mainly curated, designed, produced and installed by the 4th year students. This year we aim to start preparing, collating and formatting work in good time before the submission deadline. 4.7 MULTI-MEDIA & MULTI-REALITY We are aiming to capture and digitise the design work, studio culture, live experiments, and model building and exhibition installation process in still, moving images or MR environment resulting in a media output of the studio which you can link to your portfolios after the course.


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image: Tuan Anh Tran, Compacking Commons – The Aggregation of Waste


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THE ORGANIZATION “Of course, architecture is only architecture — one can never and should never overestimate the abilities that anyone or anything has, but at the same time I think we also need to be explicitly optimistic in our work. We have to believe in the possibility to make things better.” – Ole Scheeren, OLE SCHEEREN: “HOW CAN WE BREAK THE MOLD?” by Ana Bogdan, The Talks 31st January 2018 5.0 ORGANIZATION Diploma Unit 03 requires students to participate full-time and take part in each activity and assessment. The unit work is primarily tutorial and critique-based studies around individual work. There are also a number of guest workshops, critics, consultancies and group activities. The unit culture is important so please plan to work in the studio (from Term 2) as much as possible to learn from your peers and be ready to share information with your peers. The unit work is organized in four distinct phases of which there are a series of iterative experimentations. The phases are as follows: PHASE 1 [T1Wk01 - T1Wk05] Urban Object and Formation, Design Opportunities and Multiple Identities The year starts with a series of simple digitisation and playful three-dimensional experimentations. Students explore and capture critical urban object(s) and/or infrastructure(s) digitally, and investigate, from generic to specific intelligence of the processes, practices and opportunities of Digitalisation especially prior to, during & after the scanning procedure. It is the ambition to instrumentalise digitisation processes and generate the alternative urban object(s) and formation(s), provoking possible design tension between the original, the scan and the digital. Students conduct a series of iterative design experimentations and conceptualise the new notion of Urban Objects and Infrastructures through Digitisation Design Techniques; and challenge the known urban identities, experiences and sensibilities. All students also develop their ecologic interests and framework in parallel, based on the opportunity arisen from their corresponding digitisation techniques, plus their general interests in technologies, urbanism, and inhabitation. It is important to initiate the discussion of theoretical positioning and design ambition.

PHASE 2 [T1Wk06 - T2Wk04 inc. City Visit if the situation permits] Urban Ecology Framework to Situated Challenges - Infrastructure, Public Domain, & Experiences, Following the learning outcomes from Phase 1, all students investigate specific subject matters on Ecology, Ecologic Architecture, Design, Practice and their very opportunity according to their thesis interests. Students prepare analytical and graphical documentation as well as written and verbal communications to demonstrate the relevant situated considerations, critical information and challenges. As a unit, we focus on the specific undertaking towards an Ecologic and Urban Living and define design targets for experimentation, development and material output at this stage. We move from digital experimentation to physical experimentation integrating urban specificities and emerging ecologic technology interests over Winter Break. All students to participate Environmental & Technical Studies [ETS], Unit Trip (if applicable), organise and conduct individual City Visit (if permitted), testing their ideologies, design works, theoretical and polemical positioning, forming a new global-local ecologic environment. PHASE 3A [T2Wk05 - T3Wk01 inc. Previews & ETS submission] Ecological Urban Formation & Critical Changes in Urban Living In this phase, students reflect, develop and finalise the architectural ambition and design thesis by synthesizing the Situated Ecologic Project and Urban Formation with environmental & technical developments plus preview feedbacks. The work focuses on the ecological relationship between architectural intervention, immediate surroundings, public domains and the selected city. All students demonstrate their theoretic and polemic ambition with their proposals and clearly communicate the criticality of their proposed Life-Changing Experience from individual scale to community and


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eventually to the urban area. All students make specific design conclusion with complete physical constructs, urban sample drawing and model, meta-drawing and all support documentation, representation, videos and any other dissemination. PHASE 3B [T3Wk02 - T3Wk09 inc. Final Jury, Final Tables + External Examination] Speculative Futures - Urban Ecologies, Infrastructure - Future Living, Community, City and Nature This final phase, the students maximise the effort to define modifiers for a clear projective future and speculate necessary revisions to their work as a coherent design thesis. The projects are to be concluded with a radical and speculative ecologic relationship with Nature. Students employ all and necessary deliverables to convey the design polemics on Aesthetics, Experience, Socio-Cultures and Future Speculations. The 4th year students are designing and constructing the Diploma Unit 03 exhibition space for the AA Project Review. Time is also spent to edit and print the Diploma Unit 03 catalogue as well as all the Progress Files of the unit for the exhibition. The 5th year students are making their work presentable for the external examination and are only able to help on the exhibition in the final few days.

5.1 CALENDAR & TIMETABLE Weekly tutorials are mainly on Wednesday (design) and Saturday (thesis). We have regular pin-ups on Wednesdays. Try to avoid any Core Studies and/or ETS Tutorials on Wednesday. The unit calendar and timetable are made available on a shared G-Drive at the start of the year. UNIT PRESENTATION 21 September 2020 UNIT INTERVIEW 28 September 2020 REVIEW 01 26 October 2020 REVIEW 02 16 November 2020 TERM 1 JURY* 16 December 2020 REVIEW 03* 12 January 2021 REVIEW 04 10 February 2021 ETS INTERIM JURY 10 March 2021 4th YEAR PREVIEWS 17-18 March 2021 5th YEAR PREVIEWS 24-25 March 2021 ETS FINAL SUBMISSION 26 April 2021 REVIEW 05 28 April 2021 DIP03 FINAL JURY 19 May 2021 4th FINAL TABLES 9-10 June 2021 5th FINAL TABLES 16-17 June 2021 EXTERNAL EXAMINATION 23 June 2021 PROJECT REVIEW OPENING 25 June 2021

5.2 STUDY TRIPS We are not planning any extended unit trip this year due to the pandemic situation in the UK and across the globe. We are visiting some of the interesting work in London. We are planning to travel to Hooke Park and other city-excursions in the UK as a unit if the situation permits. If the situation allows, we would like to encourage, not a requirement, every student to travel on an extended CITY VISIT trip during term break between term 1 and 2. image: Siying Alison Chen

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5.3 TERM 1 PHASE 01 [5 weeks] T1Wk01 City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living - search for media (e.g. videos) documentary from the last three years about the mentioned subjects of your interests, covering minimum two of the five categories, the more the better; and present your exciting findings and discuss the possible radical ecological opportunity with your colleagues in the first unit meeting. Graphical Documentation* [30 x 30cm] - produce drawings to communicate your findings of the subjects and opportunities; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant experience. Statement of Interests 0* [one sentence] - a written expression of interests on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living, its very relationship with the professions and inhabitation. T1Wk02 Experimentation 1.0 - digital construct 01 [file size subject to the processing capacity of your scanner, apps and computer] - based on the exploration the week before, explore and define similar and relevant Urban Object(s) or Infrastructure(s) close to where you are. Scan the object or infrastructure with a Lidar device (available from the school or use iPad Pro 2020 + Heges app), alternatively simply use a smartphone with online processing photogrammetry apps like Display.land 3D Model Scanner. Please record and document the processes in detail, investigate, experiment and compare critically the processes prior to, during and after the scanning procedure; explore the opportunity for incompleteness, deformation, distortion, fragmentation, twisting, interference, rotation, etc. to generate alternatives otherwise not possible with other design processes. It is the ambition to instrumentalise digitisation and provoke possible design tension between the original, the scan and the digital construct Please pay attention to the articulation of point cloud, mesh form and its specific perceptive anticipation. Graphical Documentation* [DC01] - produce drawings to communicate your detailed understanding in scanning considerations, processes, and possible radical opportunity from the above;

explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant experience. Statement of Interests 0.5* [100 words] - a written expression of interests on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living, its very relationship with the professions and inhabitation. Pay attention to biodiversity, resources, energy and waste management. T1Wk03 Experimentation 1.1 - exploit the digitised object or infrastructure with overlays, cloaking, camouflage, etc. plus the interplay with colours, patterns, textures, transparency, etc. to further develop and iterate DC01. Convey your detailed understanding of the design method, digitisation consequence, opportunities and constraints towards an alternative Object or Infrastructure. Explain the unique consequence after the articulation of mesh surfaces, and the application of three-dimensional overlays beyond the convention of 3D mapping, wrapping and projection. Graphical Documentation* [DC01R] - instrumentalise drawings to communicate your experimentation, criticality, and the consequence in identity and mood. Allow for analytical and comparison work if necessary. Statement of Intent 1.0* [150 words] - a written expression of design intent on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living, its very relationship with the professions and inhabitation. Pay attention to ecologic technology. T1Wk04 Experimentation 2.1 - digital construct 02 - expand the work from DC01R, iterate and form a larger object amplifying the design characteristics and experiential features; explore a possible relationship with your ecologic interests according to your statement and identify the opportunity and consequence spatially and experientially. Pay attention to the expansion (e.g. scaling up, discrete formation or driven by perceptive emphasis) rules and the subsequent engagement and possible identity. Graphical Documentation* [DC02] - produce drawings to communicate your detail understanding in expanding processes, principles and possible radical opportunity for ecologic anticipation;


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explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant experience. Statement of Intent Final* [150 words] - a written expression of design intent on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living, its very relationship with the professions and inhabitation. Pay attention to ecological anticipation and experience. T1Wk05 - Review 1 Experimentation 2.2 - further develop the technique of digitisation and overlays from DC02 towards an Urban Formation, and strengthen the relationship with ecological interests and technologies, identify the design polemics, opportunity and challenge, and speculate the subsequent spatiality and experientiality, hence its very identity. Please pay attention to the formation logic, possible inhabitation and engagement, and the architectural sensibility. Meta-drawings [1.5 x 0.59+m] - composite and graphical communication summarise the critical design intelligence and relevant information, and their very relationship with previous experiments and thesis statements. Presentation - communicate verbally, with all works, your interests in Ecology, Urban Object or Infrastructure, Digitisation Processes, Instrumentalisation and Challenges, Spatial Engagement and Experience. Discuss the essentials and challenges of your work. Bonus to those who have considered the polemics and/or theoretical positioning of the work. Abstract 01 [1 page*, max. 200 words] - draft design thesis 1/4 [Thesis + Hypothesis] develop first draft thesis abstract from previous statements & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. Bonus credit to any 3D print of the Digital Constructs.

PHASE 02 [1-7/11 weeks] T1Wk06 - Open Week Experimentation 3.1 - Urban Ecology Framework 1: 5 Cities and Opportunities - following your interests in ecology, technology, infrastructure, design experimentations and investigations in Phase 1, please explore five cities around the globe, with no less than one million population. Study, draw

and compare their urban ecological challenges, opportunities and the ways of living. Graphical Documentation* [30 x 30cm] - produce analytical and graphical communication, instrumentalise drawings to identify, support and compare the subject matters. Allow one drawing per city plus necessary graphical information, and future integration with urban sample drawing and/or meta-drawing. City Investigation and Consultancy Proposal - Expression of Interests [1 page*] - based on your design & ecologic interests developed in Phase 1, consolidate and formulate the initial idea for ecologic subjects (biodiversity, resources, energy & waste management), technologies and infrastructure; and identify three preferable consultancy or collaboration. T1Wk07 Experimentation 3.2 - Urban Ecology Framework 2: 2 Cities and Detailed Comparison - following the work from EXP3.1, please select two cities and conduct detailed investigations. Draw and compare in details their urban ecological challenges, opportunities and the ways of living in relationship with local and emerging building technologies, relevant or vernacular infrastructures and public spaces, local inhabitation routine, community and urban formation. Graphical Documentation* [30 x 30cm] - produce detailed analytical and graphical communication, instrumentalise drawings to identify, support and compare the subject matters. Allow one drawing per city plus necessary graphical information, and future integration with urban sample drawing and/or meta-drawing. Abstract 02 [1 page*, max. 300 words] - draft design thesis 2/4 [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology] develop second draft proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references.

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ecological challenges and opportunities in community or neighbourhood scale, the social and cultural relationship with the corresponding urban formation. Pay attention to the ideas of urban interiority and enclosure, and their very relationship with technologies, infrastructures and public spaces. City Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - utilise the drawings from previous experiments and develop one large format drawing about the selected city and the relevant observations; and further develop with details the three zoom-in moments to highlight your design interests. City Investigation and Consultancy Proposal - Semi-final [A4s*] - based on your interests in design, city, site and ecology developed so far, finalise your preference of ecologic subjects, technologies and infrastructures. Follow up your contacts and establish possible consultancy or collaboration.

T1Wk09 - Review 2 Experimentation 4.2 - Urban Ecology Framework 4: 1 Site Detailed Challenges and Opportunities - continue the work from EXP4.1, please select one specific location out of the three options and conduct critical investigations. Draw and communicate an area of one hectare (100 x 100m) as urban sample in details the specific micro & macro ecological challenges and opportunities in community or neighbourhood scale, the social and cultural relationship with the corresponding urban formation. Pay attention to the inhabitation of the urban sample and the relationship with technologies, infrastructures and public spaces. Prepare to speculate the possible changes in the way of living. Urban Sample Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - utilise the drawings from previous experiments and develop one large format drawing about the selected one-hectare site and the critical and detailed considerations according to your design interests. City Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - finalise the large format drawing about the selected city and the relevant observations, with three possible sites in detail to highlight your design interests. Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical documentation to date in an curated manner, and form one single document to define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary. Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with highlights with post-

it or similar to frame and support your work and the further scope of investigation. Abstract 03 [1 page*] - draft design thesis 3/4 [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology + Design Criteria] develop third draft proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. Presentation - communicate verbally, with all works, your interests in Ecology, Urban Object or Infrastructure, Digitisation Processes, Instrumentalisation and Challenges, Spatial Engagement and Experience, City, Site, Living, Technology and Consultancy. Discuss the essentials and challenges of your work, the polemics as well as the theoretical positioning.

T1Wk10 Experimentation 5.1 - Urban Ecology Framework 5 : Ecological Infrastructure, Neighbourhood and Living - continue the work from EXP4.2, please select three zoom-in moments within the urban sample and explore and draw in critical details of specific daily ecological challenges and opportunity in human scale, behavioural routines, social and cultural relationship with the corresponding communities and neighbourhoods. Pay specific attention to the opportunity for a new ecological living and community, and the very relationship with technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. Urban Sample Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - continue the work of one large format drawing about the selected one-hectare site, further develop the three zoom-in moments and the critical and detailed considerations according to your design interests. City Investigation and Consultancy Proposal - Final [A4s*] - based on your interests in design, city, site and ecology developed so far, finalise your preference of ecologic subjects, technologies and infrastructures. Prepare questionnaires and discussion topics, and follow up your contacts and establish possible consultancy or collaboration. T1Wk11 Experimentation 5.2 - Critical Self-Assessment - following the comments from Review and continuing development of your thesis project, we take this week as an opportunity for reflection, consolidation and curation. All students to conduct a critical self-assessment regarding


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Theoretical Positioning, Thesis Ambition of your work & the Design Implication to the profession and the industry, in relationship to a possible new ecological way of living. Urban Sample Drawing* [2.0+ x 0.84+m] - continue and upsize the work of one large format drawing about the selected one-hectare site, further develop in details the three zoom-in moments and the critical and detailed considerations according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. Abstract 04 [1 page*] - draft design thesis 4/4 [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology + Design Criteria + Outcome] develop the fourth draft proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. ETS Expression of Interests [1 page*] - the initial idea for Environmental and Technical Studies 5 based on your design abstract, experimentation and ecological framework, as well as your preferences on the city, site, environmental situation and innovative technologies. Define the initial scope of environmental and technical investigations. Prepare a draft work plan for technical experimentation. T1Wk12 Experimentation 6.1 - Ecological Construct 1: Construction and Technology 1 - the students shift their attention more to physical design challenges and instrumentalisation while they continue their work on framework and urban sample. Following your thesis framework and explore in detail the specific ecological construction and technologies of your preference. It is important to demonstrate with clarity the process, the critical sequencing, properties, applications, design constraints and opportunities; and the very impacts to individuals and communities, enclosures, public spaces and infrastructures. Graphical Documentation* [30 x 30cm] - produce detailed analytical and graphical communication, instrumentalise drawings to demonstrate critical intelligence, processes, and possible radical design opportunity; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, features, consequences and the relevant experience. Prepare critical information to develop physical constructs. City Investigation and Consultancy Proposal - Weekly Work Plan [A4s*] - following your final proposal two weeks ago, prepare a weekly

schedule (covering the winter break) and communicate the structure, sequence and hierarchy of the work inc. investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. It is important to finalise your questionnaire and communicate the possible visit arrangement or remote communications, the timing, the subjects, and the impacts, and the corresponding specialists. 5.4 WINTER TERM BREAK T1Wk12+ [during Winter Break] - Each student organises their CITY I&C VISIT (if the situation permits) according to agreed work plan; conducts in-situ or remote investigative research, documents consultancy and/or collaboration with a focus on verifying critical information and specificities in the ecologic undertaking, construction technology, locality, lifestyle, any known future plans and photographic surveys, maybe even a digital scan of the site. It is essential to the success of your project to organise and prepare to complete the City Investigation and Consultancy Report over the break. Image: Elizabth Low – Seavilisation - Final Tables


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image: Dalia Matsuura Frontini

Prajapati’s Painted Bodhi - experimentation via physical construct and digital interface Honour 2018, Student Voted Honour 2018, RIBA Silver Medal Nominee 2018


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5.5 TERM 2 Phase 02 [8-11/11 weeks] T2Wk01 - T1 Jury / Review 03 Experimentation 6.2 - physical construct 01 [min. 30x30x30 cm] - based on the digital constructs an urban sample from Term 1, as well as the investigation of construction and technology over the winter break, all students explore the design intelligence and construct physically an Ecological Urban Object or Infrastructure. It is important to demonstrate its design mechanism, technological innovation and spatial sensibility. Please pay attention to the articulation of volume, interiority if any, ground relationship, and its specific experience and mood. Graphical Documentation* [PC01] - produce drawings to communicate your detailed understanding in ecological construction intelligence, critical technologies, processes, and the radical design opportunity of your design; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant experience. Urban Sample Drawing* [2.0+ x 0.84+m] - complete the upsized large-format drawing about the selected existing one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of the three zoom-in moments according to your critical interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. This becomes the “site” for your thesis intervention. City Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - complete the large format drawing about the selected city and the relevant observations, with three possible sites in detail to highlight your design interests. Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary. Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the further scope of the investigation. City Investigation and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and work plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome matters to your physical experimentation.

Presentation - communicate verbally, with all works, your interests in Ecology, Urban Object or Infrastructure, Digitisation Processes, Instrumentalisation and Challenges, Spatial Engagement and Experience, City, Site, Living, Technology and Consultancy. Discuss the essentials and challenges of your work, the polemics as well as the theoretical positioning. Abstract 05 [1 page*] - draft design thesis revision - develop fifth draft proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. ETS Abstract 1/4 [1 page*] - prepare initial research abstract for Environmental and Technical Studies [Thesis + Hypothesis] based on your design abstract, experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understanding on the urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation. Define the initial scope of technical investigation and develop a work plan for technical experimentation, with one illustration and a draft list of references. ETS Consultations begins. T2Wk02 Experimentation 6.3 - digital construct 03 [DC03] - digitise PC01 via LiDAR scan or photogrammetry, apply the digitisation techniques developed in Phase 1, iterate and develop an Ecological Urban Enclosure for community inhabitation with the critical capacity to provoke a Radical Spatial Experience. Situate the intervention on site and examine its performance and impact. It is important to demonstrate its digitisation and design mechanisms, technological innovation and ecological undertaking. Please pay attention to the articulation of details, overlay details (colours, patterns, textures and transparency), interiority, ground relationship, and its specific experience and mood. Graphical Documentation* [DC03] - instrumentalise physical construct and digitisation to communicate your experimentation, criticality, and the consequence in identity and mood. Allow for analytical and comparison work as necessary. ETS Proposal* [1 page*] - curated initial research abstract for Environmental and Technical Studies proposal based on your design abstract, experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understanding on the urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation. Finalise your proposed scope of


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environmental and technical investigation, and work plan for technical experimentation. T2Wk03 Experimentation 7.1 - physical construct 02 [scale to be agreed on an individual basis] - following the development of PC01 and DC03, develop the specific Ecologic Construction and Technology, iterate the physical design and produce a public proto-spatial experience as an Ecological Public Domain aiming to project a possibility of a radical change in social and spatial engagement. It is important to demonstrate the critical design mechanism, technological innovation and spatial sensibility. Please pay attention to the street activities, ground relationship, and its specific experience and mood Graphical Documentation* [PC02] - produce drawings to communicate your detailed understanding in the revised ecological construction intelligence, critical technologies, iterative processes, and the radical design opportunity of your design; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant experience. Abstract 06 [1 page*] - semi-final design thesis abstract - develop sixth draft proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. ETS Abstract 2/4 [1 page*] - develop research abstract for Environmental and Technical Studies [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology] based on your design abstract, experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understanding on the urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation. Define the initial scope of technical investigation and develop a work plan for technical experimentation, with one illustration and a draft list of references.

T2Wk04 Experimentation 7.2 - digital construct 03 [DC04] - digitise PC03 via LiDAR scan or photogrammetry, apply the digitisation techniques developed previously, iterate and develop an Ecological Neighbourhood employing the enclosure and public space design critically. Situate the intervention on site and formulate a radical relationship with ecological urban infrastructures and the opportunity of a small community formation and group sensibility. It is important

to demonstrate the criticality of digitisation and design mechanisms, technological innovation and ecological undertaking. Please pay attention to the articulation of details, overlay details (colours, patterns, textures and transparency), open spaces, group dynamics, and its specific experience and mood. Graphical Documentation* [DC04] - instrumentalise physical construct and digitisation to communicate your experimentation, criticality, and the consequence in identity and mood. Allow for analytical and comparison work as necessary. ETS Abstract 3/4 [1 page*] - develop research abstract for Environmental and Technical Studies [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology + Design Criteria] based on your design abstract, experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understanding on the urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation. Define the scope of technical investigation and develop a work plan for technical experimentation, with one illustration and a draft list of references.

Phase 03A [1-7/8 weeks] T2Wk05 - Open Week / Review 4 Experimentation 8.1 - physical construct 03 [scale to be agreed on an individual basis] - following the development of PC02 and DC04, based on the specific design intelligence of the proposed enclosure, public spaces and neighbourhood, develop through physical constructs an Ecological Proto-Urban Formation and facilitate a radical change in large scale public activities, social and cultural gathering. It is important to demonstrate the critical design mechanism, technological innovation and spatial sensibility. Please pay attention to the articulation of civic space and surroundings, infrastructures, and its specific experience and mood. Graphical Documentation* [PC03] - produce drawings to communicate your detailed understanding in the revised ecological construction and infrastructure intelligence, critical technologies, iterative processes, and the radical design opportunity of your design; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant experience. Urban Sample Drawing* [2.0+ x 0.84+m] - rethink the upsized large-format drawing about the selected existing one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of the three zoom-in moments


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according to your critical interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. This becomes the “site” for your thesis intervention. City Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - complete the large format drawing about the selected city and the relevant observations, with three possible sites in detail to highlight your design interests. Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary. Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the further scope of the investigation. City Investigation and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and work plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome matters to your physical experimentation. Presentation - communicate verbally, with all works, the architectural ambition in Ecology, Urban Object or Infrastructure, Digitisation Processes, Instrumentalisation and Challenges, Spatial Engagement and Experience, City, Site, Living, Technology and Consultancy, and the proposed Public Spaces, Neighbourhood and Urban Formation. Discuss the essentials and challenges of your work, the polemics as well as the theoretical positioning. Abstract 07 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - develop seventh and last draft proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. ETS draft document 1* - prepare draft document inc. ETS Abstract 3/4 and a clear Table of Content based on your design abstract, experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and technologic innovation. Detail your proposed scope of environmental and technical investigation, and a weekly work plan for technical experimentation, with a list of references.

T2Wk06 Experimentation 8.2 - proposed urban sample 01 [US01]: digital construct 05 [DC05] - digitise PC03

via LiDAR scan or photogrammetry, formulate a New Ecologic Urban Sample and develop the three Zoom-in Moments, based on the existing model drawn in Phase 2. Apply the digitisation techniques developed previously, continue iterating and developing in details the ecological proto-urban formation employing the enclosure, public space and neighbourhood design critically. Explore the possible co-evolution of both ecological urban formation and intimate inhabitation. It is important to demonstrate the criticality of digitisation and design mechanisms, technological innovation and ecological undertaking. Please pay attention to the articulation of details, overlay details (colours, patterns, textures and transparency), the specific tension between small and urban experience and mood. Urban Sample Drawing* [3.0+ x 0.84+m] - continue and develop the proposed work of one large-format drawing about the selected one-hectare site, further develop in details the three zoom-in moments and the critical and detailed considerations according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. Prepare to compare with the existing urban sample drawing from Phase 2. ETS Abstract 4/4 [1 page*] - finalise research abstract for Environmental and Technical Studies [Thesis + Hypothesis + Methodology + Design Criteria + Outcome] based on your design abstract, experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understanding on the urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation. Define the scope of technical investigation and develop a work plan for technical experimentation, with one illustration and a list of references. ETS draft document 2* - prepare the second draft document inc. ETS Abstract 4/4 and a final Table of Content based on your design abstract, experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical investigation, and update the weekly work plan and deliverables for technical experimentation, with a list of references.

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constructs the Ecological Proto-Urban Formation and formulate a critical relationship with Nature and Biodiversity. It is important to demonstrate the critical design mechanism, technological innovation and spatial sensibility. Please pay attention to the radical role of nature in the project, and its specific experience and mood. Graphical Documentation* [PC04] - produce drawings to communicate your detailed understanding in the revised ecological construction and infrastructure intelligence, critical technologies, iterative processes, and the radical design opportunity of your design; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant experience. Reflection [1 page*] - conduct a self-assessment and reflect on the Ecologic and Construction Technology, its critical role in your work and the embodied intelligence. ETS Abstract Final [1 page*] - finalise research abstract for Environmental and Technical Studies based on your design abstract, experimentations and ecologic premises, as well as your understanding on the urban situation, local consultancy and/or collaboration, and technologic innovation. Define the scope of technical investigation and develop a work plan for technical experimentation, with one illustration and a list of references. ETS draft document 3* - prepare the third draft document inc. final ETS Abstract and Table of Content based on your design abstract, experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical investigation and experimentation, and update the weekly work plan and deliverables, with a list of references.

T2Wk08 Experimentation 9.2 - proposed urban sample 02 [US02]: digital construct 06 [DC06] - digitise PC04 via LiDAR scan or photogrammetry, continue developing the situated Ecologic Urban Sample and the three Zoom-in Moments. Apply the digitisation techniques developed previously, continue iterating and developing in details the ecological proto-urban formation and explore the radical tension between ecological resilience & urban experience. Explore the possible co-evolution of both ecological technologies, infrastructures and urban formation. It is important to demonstrate the criticality of digitisation and design mechanisms, technological innovation and

ecological undertaking. Please pay attention to the articulation of details, overlay details (colours, patterns, textures and transparency), the specific urban experience and mood. ETS draft document 4* - prepare the fourth draft document inc. final ETS Abstract Final and Table of Content based on your design abstract, experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical investigation and experimentation, and update the weekly work plan and deliverables, with a list of references. Prepare for Interim Submission and Presentation.

T2Wk09 - ETS Interim Assessment Thesis Reflection - physical construct 05 [scale to be agreed on an individual basis] - following the development of PC04 and DC06, based on the specific design intelligence of the proposed enclosure, public spaces, neighbourhood and urban sample, further develop through physical constructs the Ecological Proto-Urban Formation and formulate a new Ecological Living. It is important to demonstrate the critical design mechanism, technological innovation and spatial sensibility. Please pay attention to the radical ecological lifestyles & speculative futures, and the co-evolutionary relationship with technological innovations, infrastructure & city, as well as its specific experience and mood. Please take a good moment and conduct a Pre-Previews synthesis, revise & finalise design abstract and thesis, curate physical constructs and large format drawings. It is important to have your progress files and research files ready. Organise any audio-video and/or Multiple Reality outputs, as well as all support documents and reports. Please also prepare for Rehearsals, and focus on effective, expressive and explicit communication. Reflection [1 page*] - conduct a self-assessment and reflect on the proposed Ecological Urban Formation, from intimate to city scale, its critical role in your work and the embodied intelligence. ETS draft document 5* - interim submission - prepare the fifth draft document inc. final ETS Abstract and Table of Content based on your design abstract, experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical investigation and experimentation, and update the weekly work plan


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and deliverables, with a list of references. Allow for Interim Presentation. T2Wk10 & 11 - 4th & 5th yrs Preview Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, your architectural ambition in Ecology, the proposed Ecologic Urban Object / Infrastructure, Community, Public Spaces, Neighbourhood and Urban Formation, Ecological Living, Nature & Biodiversity and Speculative Future; celebrate design innovation and experience, with clear and specific reference about relevant protagonists of your thesis, and to support your polemical and theoretical positioning. All Physical Constructs 01 - 05 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality] - draw a temporary conclusion on the three phases experimentation so far with the support from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Ecological Living and Proto-Urban Formation, and your detail understanding in the complex relationship between ecology, digitisation, overlays, tectonics design, enclosure, technology, infrastructure, public spaces, urban formation, lifestyle, experience and mood. Communicate clearly the critical design mechanism and the relevant impacts. Meta-drawings [3.0 x 0.84+m] - composite and graphical communication summarise the critical design intelligence and relevant information, and their very relationship with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and theoretical positioning. Urban Sample Drawing* [3.0+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about the selected one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of three zoom-in moments according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. City Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - complete the large format drawing about the selected city and the relevant observations, with three possible sites in detail to highlight your design interests. Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary.

Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the further scope of the investigation. City Investigation and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and work plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome matters to your physical experimentation. Abstract 07 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - develop seventh and last draft proposal from previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. ETS draft document 5* - interim submission - the fifth draft document inc. final ETS Abstract and Table of Content based on your design abstract, experimentation and ecologic premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and technologic innovation. Document your environmental and technical investigation and experimentation, and update the weekly work plan and deliverables, with a list of references.

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5.7 TERM 3 Phase 03A [8/8 weeks] T3Wk01 - Review 5 Experimentation 10.1 - physical construct 06 [scale to be agreed on an individual basis] - following the feedbacks from Preview Tables and the specific design intelligence of the proposed enclosure, public spaces, neighbourhood and urban sample, identify and consolidate critical design modifiers as necessary, develop through the physical constructs a revision of the Ecological Proto-Urban Formation and reformulate the proposed Ecological Living. It is important to demonstrate the critical design mechanism, technological innovation and spatial sensibility. Please pay attention to the renew ecological lifestyles & speculative futures, and the co-evolutionary relationship with technological innovations, infrastructure & city, as well as its specific experience and mood. Graphical Documentation* [PC06] - produce drawings to communicate your detailed understanding in the revised ecological construction and infrastructure intelligence, critical technologies, iterative processes, and the radical design opportunity of your design; explain the knowledge bases, considerations, critical features, consequences and the relevant experience. All Physical Constructs 01 - 06 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality] - draw a temporary conclusion on the three phases experimentation so far with the support from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Ecological Living and Proto-Urban Formation, and your detail understanding in the complex relationship between ecology, digitisation, overlays, tectonics design, enclosure, technology, infrastructure, public spaces, urban formation, lifestyle, experience and mood. Communicate with clarity the critical design mechanism and the relevant impacts. Meta-drawings [3.0 x 0.84+m] - composite and graphical communication summarise the critical design intelligence and relevant information, and their very relationship with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and theoretical positioning.

Urban Sample Drawing* [3.0+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about the selected one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of three zoom-in moments according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. City Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - complete the large format drawing about the selected city and the relevant observations, with three possible sites in detail to highlight your design interests. Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary. Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the further scope of the investigation. City Investigation and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and work plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome matters to your physical experimentation. Abstract 08 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - revise thesis proposal from preview feedbacks, previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. ETS final document* - prepare the final document for submission inc. final ETS Abstract, Table of Content, and detailed Chapters based on your design abstract, experimentation, ecologic and urban premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and technologic innovation. Detail your scope of environmental and technical investigation, the processes, analysis and assessment, and conclusion of technical experimentation, and the learning outcome, with a list of references. Audio-Video and/or Multiple Reality output. Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, your architectural ambition in Ecology, the proposed Ecologic Urban Object /


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Infrastructure, Community, Public Spaces, Neighbourhood and Urban Formation, Ecological Living, Nature & Biodiversity and Speculative Future; reflecting Preview Feedback, ETS and its Relevancy in your work. Celebrate design innovation and experience, with clear and specific reference about relevant protagonists of your thesis, and to support your polemical and theoretical positioning.

Phase 03B [1-8/8 weeks] T3Wk02 Experimentation 10.2 - proposed urban sample 03 [US03]: digital construct 07 [DC07] - following the feedbacks from Preview Tables and ETS, digitise PC06 (and/or PC05) via LiDAR scan or photogrammetry, continue to develop the situated Ecologic Urban Formation and the three Zoom-in Moments. Apply the digitisation techniques developed previously, continue modifying in details the ecological proto-urban formation and explore the radical tension between ecological living & speculative urban futures. Explore the possible co-evolution of both ecological technologies, infrastructures and urban formation. It is important to demonstrate the criticality of digitisation and design mechanisms, technological innovation and ecological undertaking. Please pay attention to the articulation of details, overlay details (colours, patterns, textures and transparency), the specific urban experience and mood. Meta-drawings [3.0 x 0.84+m] - composite and graphical communication summarise the critical design intelligence and relevant information, and their very relationship with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and theoretical positioning. Urban Sample Drawing* [3.0+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about the selected one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of three zoom-in moments according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. Abstract 09 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - final thesis abstract revision developed from preview feedbacks, previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. T3Wk03

Thesis Synthesis 1 - it is important to Reflect, Consolidate and Curate your design development work about Ecologic Urban Object / Infrastructure, Technology, Community, Public Spaces, Neighbourhood and Urban Formation, Ecological Living, Nature & Biodiversity and Speculative Future Implication in relationship with the unit brief and subject matter. It is essential to demonstrate effectively, expressively and explicitly your ambition, challenges, critical understandings, polemical and theoretical positioning of the work with clarity. Urban Sample Physical Construct* [1.0 x 1.0 x1.0m*] - develop one large-format physical construct of the one-hectare ecological urban sample, with clear and specific details of three zoom-in moments according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. Meta-drawings [3.0 x 0.84+m] - composite and graphical communication summarise the critical design intelligence and relevant information, and their very relationship with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and theoretical positioning.

T3Wk04 - FINAL JURY Thesis Synthesis 2 - it is important to Reflect, Consolidate and Curate your design development work about Ecologic Urban Object / Infrastructure, Technology, Community, Public Spaces, Neighbourhood and Urban Formation, Ecological Living, Nature & Biodiversity and Speculative Future Implication in relationship with the unit brief and subject matter. It is essential to demonstrate effectively, expressively and explicitly your ambition, challenges, critical understandings, polemical and theoretical positioning of the work with clarity. Urban Sample Physical Construct* [1.0 x 1.0 x1.0m*] - develop one large-format physical construct of the one-hectare ecological urban sample, with clear and specific details of three zoom-in moments according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. Meta-drawings [3.0 x 0.84+m] - composite and graphical communication summarise the critical design intelligence and relevant information, and their very relationship with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and theoretical positioning.


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Presentation - communicate expressly and explicitly all works, your architectural ambition in Ecology, the proposed Ecologic Urban Object / Infrastructure, Community, Public Spaces, Neighbourhood and Urban Formation, Ecological Living, Nature & Biodiversity and Speculative Future; reflecting Thesis Synthesis, and latest development of the thesis project. Celebrate design innovation and experience, with clear and specific reference about relevant protagonists of your thesis, and to support your polemical and theoretical positioning. All Physical Constructs 01 - 07 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality] - draw a temporary conclusion on the three phases experimentation so far with the support from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Ecological Living and Proto-Urban Formation, and your detail understanding in the complex relationship between ecology, digitisation, overlays, tectonics design, enclosure, technology, infrastructure, public spaces, urban formation, lifestyle, experience and mood. Communicate with clarity the critical design mechanism and the relevant impacts. Urban Sample Drawing* [3.0+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about the selected one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of three zoom-in moments according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. City Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - complete the large format drawing about the selected city and the relevant observations, with three possible sites in detail to highlight your design interests. Audio-Video and/or Multiple Reality output. Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary. Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the further scope of the investigation. City Investigation and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and work

plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome matters to your physical experimentation. Abstract 08 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - revise thesis proposal from preview feedbacks, previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. ETS final document* - prepare the final document for submission inc. final ETS Abstract, Table of Content, and detailed Chapters based on your design abstract, experimentation, ecologic and urban premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and technologic innovation. Detail your scope of environmental and technical investigation, the processes, analysis and assessment, and conclusion of technical experimentation, and the learning outcome, with a list of references. T3Wk05 Thesis Synthesis 3 - it is important to Reflect, Consolidate and Curate your design development work based on the feedback from the Final Jury. Please focus on the final revision about Ecologic Urban Object / Infrastructure, Technology, Community, Public Spaces, Neighbourhood and Urban Formation, Ecological Living, Nature & Biodiversity and Speculative Future Implication in relationship with the unit brief and subject matter. It is essential to demonstrate effectively, expressively and explicitly your ambition, challenges, critical understandings, polemical and theoretical positioning of the work with clarity. Prepare to finalise all your work and communication materials for Rehearsals. T3Wk06 Rehearsals - Pre-Final Tables thesis synthesis, revise & finalise thesis, curate physical constructs, urban sample model, large format drawings, audio-video and/or multiple reality output, as well as all support documents. Prepare for Rehearsals, and focus on effective, expressive and explicit communication.


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T3Wk07 & Wk08 – 4th & 5th yrs Final Tables Presentation - communicate effectively, expressly and explicitly all works, your architectural ambition in Ecology, the proposed Ecologic Urban Object / Infrastructure, Community, Public Spaces, Neighbourhood and Urban Formation, Ecological Living, Nature & Biodiversity and Speculative Future; reflecting Thesis Synthesis, and latest development of the thesis project. Celebrate design innovation and experience, with clear and specific reference about relevant protagonists of your thesis, and to support your polemical and theoretical positioning. Urban Sample Physical Construct* [1.0 x 1.0 x1.0m*] - develop one large-format physical construct of the one-hectare ecological urban sample, with clear and specific details of three zoom-in moments according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures. All Physical Constructs 01 - 07 [all physical constructs to be in exhibition quality] - draw a temporary conclusion on the three phases experimentation so far with the support from all previous iterations and discuss the iterative and accumulative intelligence of the work. Convey the design challenges based on the latest design of Ecological Living and Proto-Urban Formation, and your detail understanding in the complex relationship between ecology, digitisation, overlays, tectonics design, enclosure, technology, infrastructure, public spaces, urban formation, lifestyle, experience and mood. Communicate clearly the critical design mechanism and the relevant impacts. Meta-drawings [3.0 x 0.84+m] - composite and graphical communication summarise the critical design intelligence and relevant information, and their very relationship with previous experiments, framework, design polemics and theoretical positioning. Urban Sample Drawing* [3.0+ x 0.84+m] - one large-format drawing about the selected one-hectare site, with clear and specific details of three zoom-in moments according to your design interests in technologies, infrastructures, public spaces and individual enclosures.

City Drawing* [1.5 x 0.59+m] - complete the large format drawing about the selected city and the relevant observations, with three possible sites in detail to highlight your design interests. Audio-Video and/or Multiple Reality output. Progress Files* [30 x 30cm] - consolidate and compile all your graphical documentation to date in a curated manner, and form one single document to define design focus and intent, draw summary and conclusion as necessary. Research Files* [A4 Binder] - collect and structure all raw research materials with highlights with a post-it or similar to frame and support your work and the further scope of the investigation. City Investigation and Consultancy Report* [30 x 30cm] - following your final proposal and work plan, curate the materials and complete the documentation of your investigations, consultation and/or collaboration, interviews, digital scan and photographic survey. Please communicate the critical and detailed information about the city, the site, the ecological technology and the learning outcome matters to your physical experimentation. Abstract 08 [1 page*] - final design thesis abstract - revise thesis proposal from preview feedbacks, previous statements, abstract & general readings on City, Ecology, Technology, Infrastructure and Living; with one illustration and a list of references. ETS final document* - prepare the final document for submission inc. final ETS Abstract, Table of Content, and detailed Chapters based on your design abstract, experimentation, ecologic and urban premises, as well as your preferences on the urban situation and technologic innovation. Detail your scope of environmental and technical investigation, the processes, analysis and assessment, and conclusion of technical experimentation, and the learning outcome, with a list of references. T3Wk09 - External Examination + Exhibition** Preparation * 30x30cm template for the progress files

will be circulated at the beginning of Term 1.

** Full anticipation and commitment are expected as well as your full corporation in preparing and dismantling the end of year exhibition until mid-July.


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image: Levin Ka Yu Chan, Physical Construct with Magnet and Nails Students Voted Honour 2019


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6.0 READING LIST (Please see the Diploma Unit 03 shelf in the library) On Ecology and Environment Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2020, Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, CBD International, Montreal, ISBN-9789292256883, 212 pages Almond, R.E.A., Grooten M. and Petersen, T. (Eds)., WWF, 2020, Living Planet Report 2020 - Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. World Wide Fund for Nature, Gland, Switzerland, ISBN 978-2-940529-99-5, 83 pages Frederick R. Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming, 2019, Design With Nature Now, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, ISBN-10: 1558443932, ISBN-13: 978-1558443938, 368 pages Kelvin Campbell, 2018, The Massive Small Compendium: Ideas, Tools and Tactics for Urban Society, Chelsea Green Publishing, ISBN 1603587756, 9781603587754, 384 pages Bruno Latour, 2017, translated by Catherine Porter 2018, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Polity Press, ISBN-10: 9781509530571, ASIN: 1509530576, 140 pages Thomas Schropfer 2016, The Dense and Green Paradigm, Dense + Green: Innovative Building Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture, Birkhauser Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. ISBN 3038215791, ISBN 9783038215790, 304 pages, pp. 10–37 Matthias Gross 2010, Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design, MIT Press, ISBN 9780262266277, 256 pages John Bellamy Foster 2009, The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet, Monthly Review Press, U.S.; ISBN 1583671781, 978-1583671788, 328 pages On Speculative Design Victor Papanek 1971, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, Pantheon Books, New York, ISBN 0-394-47036-2, 378 pages Pedro Gadanho, 2018, Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture, and New Media after the Anthropocene, Hatje Cantz Verlag, ISBN-10: 3775744533, ISBN-13: 978-3775744539, 224 pages Patrik Schumacher, 2017, Critique of Object Oriented Architecture, in Michael Benedikt & Kory Bieg

(Editors) 2018, The Secret Life of Buildings, Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas at Austin, ISBN-10: 0934951284, ISBN-13: 978-0934951289, 216 pages Kelly Bair, 2018, Possible Mediums, ActarD Inc., ISBN 1940291968, 9781940291963, 200 pages Todd Gannon, Graham Harman, David Ruy & Tom Wiscombe, 2015, The Object Turn: A Conversation, Log 33, Winter 2015, Cynthia Davidson, Anyone Corporation, ISBN 9780990735212, 156 pages Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby, 2013, Speculative Everything, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ISBN 10: 0262019841, ISBN 13: 9780262019842, 224 pages Graham Harman 2010, Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures, Zero Books, ISBN-10: 1846943949, ISBN-13: 978-1846943942, 219 pages On Architectural Technologies Carl Benedikt Frey, 2019, The Technology Trap, Princeton University Press, ISBN-10: 069117279X, ISBN-13: 978-0691172798, 312 pages James Bridle, 2018, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, Verso Books, ISBN-10: 178663547X, ISBN-13: 978-1786635471, 304 pages Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith Oct. 2017, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, Penguin Publishing Group, ISBN 0399563830, 9780399563836, 368 pages Maki Kuwayama 2018, Process of Making: Five Parameters to Shape Buildings, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, ISBN 3035613613, 9783035613612, 416 pages Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jimenez, Mollie Claypool, Vicente Soler 2018, Robotic Building [DETAIL Special], DETAIL, ISBN 3955534243, 9783955534240, 160 pages Dana K. Gulling 2018, Manufacturing Architecture: An Architect's Guide to Custom Processes, Materials, and Applications, Laurence King Publishing, ISBN 1786271338, 9781786271334, 52 pages3 On Digitisation & Immersive Experience Oliver Gassmann, Jonas Böhm, Maximilian Palmié, 2019, Smart Cities: Introducing Digital Innovation to

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Cities, Emerald Publishing Limited, ISBN-10: 1787696146, ISBN-13: 978-1787696143, 230 pages Rob DeSalle 2018, [Illustrated by Patricia J.

Our Senses: An Immersive ExperienceWynne], , Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300230192, 312 pages

ario CarpoM 2017, nd Digital Turn: Design The SecoBeyond Intelligence [Writing Architecture series], MIT Press, ISBN 0262534029, 9780262534024, 240 pages Jon Peddie 2017, ere We Will Wh Augmented Reality:All Live, Springer International Publishing, ISBN 3319545019, 9783319545011, 323 pages Jayne Gackenbach, Johnathan Bown 2017, Boundaries of Self and Reality Online: Implications of Digitally Constructed Realities, Academic Press; 1 edition, ISBN 0128041579, 333 pages

The Economic Singularity: Artificial Calum Chace 2016, , Three Cs, intelligence and the death of capitalism

0993211645, 440 pages-ISBN 099321164X, 978 On Materials & Material Transfer Kate Franklin, Caroline Till 2018, Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future, Thames and Hudson Ltd, ISBN-10: 0500295395, ISBN-13: 978-0500295397, 256 pages Maria Voyatzaki 2018, Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity (New Materialisms), Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-10: 1474420575, ISBN-13: 978-1474420570, 160 pages Peter Testa 2018, Robot House, Thames and Hudson Ltd, ISBN 0500293449, 978-0500293447, 336 pages Andrew Atwood 2011, “Monolithic Representations,” in Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production Oxon: Routledge, ISBN 0415780292, 978-0415780292, 520 pages, p 205 – 212 On the Future Donna J. Haraway 2016, Staying with the Trouble (Experimental Futures), Duke University Press Books, ISBN-10: 0822362244, ISBN-13: 978-0822362241, 304 pages Buckminster Fuller 1978, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Hardcover, Amereon Ltd, E. P. Dutton, ISBN 089190235X, 9780891902355, 128 pages (1998 reprint)

Ian D. Rotherham 2017, A -Recombinant Ecology

?Hybrid Future Springer, SpringerBriefs in Ecology series, ISBN 3319497979, 9783319497976, 85 pages Stefano L. Tresca 2015, Future Cities: 42 Insights and Interviews with Influencers, Startups, Investors, Seahorse Press; 1 edition, ISBN 0993109535, 978-0993109539, 378 pages Klaus Schwab Jan 2017, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Portfolio Penguin; 1 edition, ISBN 0241300754, 978-0241300756, 192 pages Buckminster Fuller 1978, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Hardcover, Amereon Ltd, E. P. Dutton, ISBN 089190235X, 9780891902355, 128 pages (1998 reprint) Critical Thinking and Current Discourse Lebbeus Woods, 2015, Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog: Lebbeus Woods Blog, Princeton Architectural Press; Illustrated Edition, ISBN-10 : 1616893346, ISBN-13 : 978-1616893347, 288 pages Tristan Garcia 2014, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (Speculative Realism), Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-10: 0748681507, ISBN-13: 978-0748681501, 488 pages Jeffrey Kipnis, Alexander Maymind 2013, A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture, MIT Press, ISBN 0262519550, 978-0262519557, 288 pages John E. M. Whiteman, Richard Jeffrey Kipnis,

, Strategies of Architectural ThinkingBurdett 1992, Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism, ISBN 026223159X, 9780262231596, 256 pages Felix Guattari 1989 (English Edition 2000), The Three Ecologies, The Athlone Press US, ISBN 0485004089, 0485006081, 174 pages John Ruskin 1898, Chapter VI The Nature of Gothic in The Stone of Venice, Vol II, The Sea Stories, Dana Estes & Company, 396pages, p151 – 230 Fiction Aldous Huxley 1932, Brave New World, [original: Chatto & Windus, London 1932, 311 pages], Vinatage Classic 2007, ISBN 0099518473, 9780099518471, 288 pages


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Ernest Callenbach 1975, Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston, Banyan Tree Books January 1975, ISBN 0553348477, 181 pages J. G. Ballard, 1962, The Drowned World, Berkley Books, ISBN: 0871404060,158 pages Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller 2018, Otherworld, Oneworld Publications, ISBN-10: 1786074230, ISBN-13: 978-1786074232, 368 pages Ray Bradbury 1953, Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books, ISBN 978-0-7432-4722-1, 158 pages Non Fiction Mateo Kries, Amelie Klein, Alison J Clarke, Vitra Design Museum (host institution), Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (host institution), 2018, Victor Papanek - The Politics of Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, ISBN 10: 3945852269 ISBN 13: 9783945852262, 400 pages Keith Krumwiede 2016, An Atlas of Another America: An Architectural Fiction, Park Books, ISBN-10: 9783038600022, ISBN-13: 978-3038600022, 272 pages Ryan Williams 2016, The Influencer Economy: How to Launch Your Idea, Share It with the World, and Thrive in the Digital Age, Ryno Lab, ISBN-10: 0996077111, ISBN-13: 978-0996077118, 276 pages Amitav Ghosh 2017, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Berlin Family Lectures), University of Chicago Press, ISBN-10: 9780226526812, ISBN-13: 978-0226526812, 176 pages

Naomi Klein 2015, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Penguin, ISBN-10: 0241956188, ISBN-13: 978-0241956182, 576 pages Timothy Morton 2018, Being Ecological, Pelican, ISBN-10: 0241274230, ISBN-13: 978-0241274231, 240 pages Further Reference Geoffrey Hoyle (Author), Alasdair Anderson (Illustrator) 1972, 2011: Living In The Future, Laughing Elephant (2010 edit.), ISBN-10: 1595834303, ISBN-13: 978-1595834300, 64 pages David Sim 2019, Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life, Island Press, ISBN-10: 1642830186, ISBN-13: 978-1642830187, 260 pages Jeremy Rifkin, 2014, Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, ss, ISBNSt. Martin's Pre

37437766, 978113743776111 , 368 pages Joseph Tainter 1988, The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge University Press, NY, US, ISBN 0521340926, 250 pages Jared Diamonds 1997, Guns, Germs and Steel The Fates of Human Societies, WW Norton & Company NY London, ISBN 0393317552, 457 pages Stewart Brand (ed) June 1971, The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Random House, ISBN 0394704592, 9780394704593, 452 pages

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Prajapati’s Painted Bodhi- Prajapati’s Painted Bodhi - experimentation via physical construct and digital interface Honour 2018, Student Voted Honour 2018, RIBA Silver Medal Nominee 2018

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