A2 - Building System Needs

	Building Systems Features
Aim	Define the features of a building system (agile prototype)
Tools	Pen and paper / computational design
Case	Building System (for focus area)
Groups	Same group as A1
Practice	In class activity in week 5 and 6
Output	Drawings / digital prototypes (i.e. grasshopper)
Submit	Markdown file + final drawing demonstrating completion of AP1 (including ‘line’, ‘segments’ and ‘features’)

Assignment

In this assignment you will follow the Step 1 of the Agile Prototyping Method, the Past: reflecting on the past to shape the present and future

This will be on your chosen system following the in class acitivites and submit:

1. Identify one thing (system) that is missing from your tent / table / bench to make it into a ‘complete’ building.

2. On campus, identify three examples of that thing that you feel represent three steps in the evolutional history of that system

3. Identify the phenotypic plasticity of these systems – your agile prototypes

4. Identify the ‘evolutionary history’ of your agile prototypes

• Complete the Methodology step 1 AP1 for your selected building system

• As disciplinary experts in your selected system we expect you to be able to go further than you managed in the first assingment with your prototype.

• Once you have completed your first iteration for your selected system, you should apply it to the ‘real’ building example. This will help you to identify the features that we might expect to see in each segment. You can also note the functions, but please keep them seperate. In this case we identify the features so that we can reverse engineer the functions in the staging process in the next assignment A3.

• Now adapt your line, segment and feature diagram so that it works also works in the case of the provided building.

This adapted final line, segment and feature drawing is the one that you should submit.