Level 2

Design and Visual Communication

Spatial Design Project
2018
Karamu High School

This second and final project of the year

provides opportunity to be assessed against
the following standards:

Subject Number Title Credits Assessment

reference
DVC 2.30 v.2 AS91337 Use visual communication techniques to generate design ideas 3 External
DVC 2.34 v.2 AS 91341 Develop a spatial design through graphics practice 6 Internal
DVC 2.36 v.2 AS 91343 Use visual communication techniques to compose the 4 Internal
presentation of a design

Brief: To design a small art gallery, retail store or café, or any combination of the three.

Considerations:
The architecture should incorporate:
• Appropriate interior spaces for its function
• The site and how this can be optimised
• Primary structure versus partitioning of spaces
• Display of art work, food or product to be sold
• User experience

Site:
• Albert Square on the corner of Heretaunga Street and Karamu Road, Hastings.

Types of art that could be exhibited:

• Painting
• Photography
• Printmaking
• Time-based media
• Sculpture

Types of retail space:

• Clothing
• Food speciality store (e.g. chocolate shop, cheese shop, etc)
• Body products
• Sporting equipment (cycling, skateboarding, etc)
• Music

Café possibilities:
• Take away facilities
• Seating inside or outside or both
• Food prepared in house or brought in
Design steps/tasks:
Instructions for each task will be given to you as needed. The following lists the tasks and approximate dates that
these will be covered in class.

Task 1: Concept Generation: Art, retail product and food theme exploration
Term 2, week 7

Task 2: Site observations, ideation and explorations

Term 2, week 8

Task 3: Inspirational architecture exploration (Including research of interior space and exterior form)
Term 2, week 9

Task 4: Inspirational architecture exploration. (using 3d explorations, photography and Photoshop)

Term 2, week 10

Task 5: Structural and material possibilities

Term 3, week 1

Milestone hand-in Wednesday 25th July

Task 6: Development
Term 3, weeks 2, 3 + 4

Task 7: Refinement and completion:

Term 3, weeks 5 + 6

Final hand-in: Wednesday 29th August (week 6)

Next step: ”Use visual communication techniques to compose the presentation of a design”

- This will be the last standard for the year and will take us up to early November.