Community Design
Design Challenge
Design scenario:
You are asked to design a community as an architectural designer to overcome a problem that threatens communities around the world.
In your group, one designer will choose one of the community areas to focus on:
Residential areas
Public areas
Private / Business areas
You will collaborate to design a community that includes each of these areas and is also designed to combat the effects of your chosen problem.
Product / Outcome:
Your final product will be a detailed scale model of the community as well as digital products to support the design.
Process:
You will follow the MYP Design cycle beginning with Inquiry and Analysis to document your design process
Statement of inquiry:
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what type of difference you want to make "
- Jane Goodall.
Adaptation and collaboration is needed to build sustainable communities for the future
Concepts:
Key:
Communities
Related:
Adaptation
Collaboration
Sustainability
Inquiry questions:
Factual questions
What are the basic elements of architecture?
What are the features of a sustainable community?
What is sustainable design?
How do architects, engineers, and urban designers communicate their ideas?
Conceptual questions
Is the typical model for building communities and cities sustainable?
What might future human settlements look like?
Debatable questions
Is it better to develop new communities or redesign existing ones?
Should we design communities to tackle or endure environmental challenges?
Unit workflow:
MYP Design Cycle
This unit will complete one cycle of the design cycle working from A to D
Assessment:
Below you will find more detailed information about each section and strand of the assessment criteria. Documenting your process:
Design Folder Template
For this unit, you may use this template to guide your documentation.
You may use your own style of folder or template as long as it contains the same elements.