PROJECT OVERVIEW
Architectural teams (students working in small groups within each home group) are challenged to design as many houses as possible using 4-cubic modules. The resulting designs have to be drawn up, costed and justified as part of a housing development. Embedded in the story shell, the learning is a lot of fun. However finding the complete set of houses such that the modules all touch face to face, where there are no 'cantilevered' structures and designs cannot be transformed into each other by a simple rotation around a vertical axis, is quite a spatial challenge.
Costing the designs adds further interest and results in not only achieving objectives in the Space and Measurement Strands, but also in the Number strand.
The learning outcomes are
- creating models in three dimensions
- representing 3D in 2D (isometric & plan/elevation views)
- scale diagrams
- operations with money
- basic number skills
The home groups are working together as independent companies and competing against each other to win the design contract.
PARENT INVOLVEMENT
Each home group will present the following to a judging panel
- A 3D model of the estate using unifix cubes.
- Design brochures with drawings and costings prepared in the smaller groups
- A joint presentation to the developers promoting the features of the model.
- A full page newspaper advertisement and/or an advertising video to promote Cubist Homes and the new estate to the public.
We would like to invite parents with a background in architecture, building, construction, real estate or design to volunteer to be on the judging panel to determine which group will win the contract for the architectural design of the housing estate.
The date for this event will be Thursday 16th June from 9.30am to 11am.
Hi Kerry - I'd like to be involved in the panel and perhaps a session on perspective drawing or sketchup modeling. Sahra (Isaac's mum)
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