Final Review | Remote Edition
12:30 - 17:00 EDT (GMT-4) | Friday, 1 May 2020

Last Updated on 2020.04.29 by Slee

We are adjusting the format and content for the final review to accomodate the reality of the coronavirus pandemic, but have high hopes that we can bring this semester to a successful conclusion. We are allocating 3 1/2 hours for each studio with the reviews running in parallel in instructor-hosted zoom video sessions. Your instructor will provide each of you with a password-protected invitation prior to the jury.The individual reviews will be followed by a 60 minute long discussion with the entire class. Slee will provide a password-protected invitation prior to the final discussion.

The following requirements have been collectively developed by the 3rd year faculty team. Individual instructors may assign more items or work at a different scale.

Submission Deadline:

All pencils (mice) down at 23:59 EDT (GMT-4) on Thursday, 30 April 2020. Please submit your PDF's to: 48305_48640_Final_Review_Dropbox

The purpose of the final review is to to share your work with classmates, faculty and our external reviewers and to bring 15 weeks of design, evaluation and iteration on a single project to a successful and celebratory conclusion. In this time of disruption, it is also a moment to reflect on the contributions that architects can bring to lead the world forward in a more positive direction - how do we make our buildings more resilient, how do we design buildings to respond to pandemic threats, how do we design buildings to actively mitigate climate change, how do we design buildings to improve social equity? The list is long, but the design thinking skills you cultivate in architecture school, will make you indispensable to creatively solving the planet's wicked problems.

Since we will not be pinning up 48" x 96" paper plots, please design you presentation as if you were producing a bound set of 30" x 42" drawings for distribution to your client, your consultants and your construction manager. You can use whatever digital workflow you feel most comfortable with, but we recommend placing each drawing "sheet" in a PowerPoint (4:3 aspect ratio) presentation or a multi-page InDesign file with formatted pages and then exporting to PDF. The advantage of PDF for this presentation is that while sharing screens we can zoom in and out for greater clarity.An Example of Formatted Sheets from BCJ for the Frick Environmental Center on Canvas

Minimum Submission Requirements:

Design your presentation based on 30" x 42" formatted sheets. Your are encouraged to combine the drawings on the list for greater clarity e.g. the relationship of the site design to the ground floor design demonstrating inside-outside relationships.

• Drawings and diagrams of sustainability objectives including natural conditioning strategies e.g. daylight, natural ventilation, water management and renewable energy.
• Drawings and diagrams of your thinking about building design in the time of pandemic, resiliency, flexibility, adaptability, DfD, etc.
• Visualizations of your Climate Consultant, ArchSIM, DIVA and /or Climate Studio simulations to demonstrate energy and daylighting performance of your final design
• Site Plan 1:192 (1/16"=1'-0")
• Overall Building Floor Plans including framing configurations represented with dashed lines, 1:96 (1/8"=1'-0")
  (a framing axonometric is an acceptable alternate to dashed lines)
• One (1) Building Section and Primary Exterior Elevations, 1:96 (1/8"=1'-0")
• One (1) Building Section, 1:48 (1/4"=1'-0")
• One (1) SPAIGR Wall Section at the Floor/Wall location, 1:12 (1"=1'-0")
  (label the R-values for the wall assembly and include daylight and energy axonometrics on the same page)
• EnScape Renders/ Experiential Drawings

Group Discussion:

Every student needs to submit one exterior rendering and one interior rendering to the URL listed below. The ability to see the breadth of individual approaches to the project will form the basis for a great discussion. Please submit .pdf or .jpg images with appropriate file names to: 48305_48640_Renders_for_Group_Discussion

End of Semester Documentation:

One last thing.
Every student needs to submit their end of semester documentation by 23:59 EDT on Monday, 11 May 2020. Please submit a single, multi-page PDF with appropriate file names to: 48305_48640_End_of_Semester_Documentation. We have collected all of your process work during the course of the semester, so this submission is the documentation that you produced for final review. We encourage you to update drawings based on comments your received during you final crit. This documentation will be the basis of your grade for the final review.