Effectively argue the specification and design choices informed by an examination of the specialisms involved with conservation and changes in use in existing buildings.

Assignment Brief

The conversion and adaption project is to convert and adapt the former De Winton and Co. Iron Foundry and Erection shop in Caernarfon, North Wales. This will involve you proposing a number of costed options for consideration by your clients before developing a selected option as a finalised set of drawings.
Your client has plans to convert the former De Winton and Co.Iron Foundry erection shop, currently used as a home and place of business. A client brief has been developed which you will use as the starting point for your designs and schemes.
Following completion of the survey you have been commissioned to suggest various alternatives and to then fully develop the clients preferred scheme (you choose).

Development Procedure

From the survey notes provided prepare the necessary ‘as existing’ drawings using CAD or traditional method of drawing.
In sketch form prepare alternative schemes investigating the possibilities of extensions for client discussion.
The sketches should be A3 sized hand drawn overlays to scale, in various media and the scope should extend beyond merely plans. The sketches should be annoted to explain the rationale behind your proposals. They should not be CAD drawings.
Finally, present the client’s preferred scheme in sufficient detail to make a formal planning application, including completed application forms.

Module Outcomes assessed:

Apply knowledge and understanding of the performance of materials in use, based on their scientific properties, embodied energy costs and their impact on the natural environment.

Effectively argue the specification and design choices informed by an examination of the specialisms involved with conservation and changes in use in existing buildings.

Consideration should be given to a whole lifecycle understanding of the selection and application of key elements of the building.

Questions you may wish to cover include:

Why have you specified them and what are the construction implications.
What are the related maintenance issues.
What are the implications of these choices in the life of the building, its use etc.

Minimum expectations for midpoint (worth 25%)

A complete set of plans, elevations, a site plan and an indicative section derived from the drawings and survey to an appropriate scale.
A volumetric model, physical or CAD based on existing set of buildings.
At least 2 non CAD sketch proposals for selection.
Consideration of material choices, structural changes etc. against an indication of construction implications and cost factors between each proposal.
Evidence of how to sensitively deal with a structure with a history for a particular location.
Ensure sustainability guides your solutions.

Minimum expectations for final presentation (worth 75%)

A full site plan to a suitable scale.
1:100 or 1:50 floor plans.
1:100 or 1:50 elevations
1:100 or 1:50 main section
1:20 detailed section illustrating structural changes, cladding, materiality and suggested service points.
2 agreed details in scales 1:10 or 1:5, this can include developmental sketches and the use of 3D drawings, either in modelling, CAD, axonometric details etc.
Finalised visualisations.
Ensure sustainability guides your solutions with suitable regard for any conservation requirements.

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