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Part 1 Assessment - Small

The project begins by providing a design for design and detail of a small urban room for the serving of food.

It's suggested that this small retail food outlet be a Soup Kitchen fronting Maitland Road, but the brief is open for you to interpret and research. However, to meet the Learning Objectives it will need to involve the design of a small food retail outlet, and the associated construction detailing of the street facing wall. Your Stream Leader will discuss their independent ways of approaching this, however the following design parameters are offered as a way of meeting the Submission Requirements;
- a minimal size of the small food retail outlet to reduce costs,
- the street-facing wall to be an engaging social space,
- the street-facing servery will mainly cater for take-aways, and is where most trade will occur.
- be an accessible design that also includes an accessible toilet,
- a relatively small kitchen, for only two workers, and a sitting space for ten people to be seated,
- the design being aware of the requirements of the Food Premises code,

Beginning a complex urban design project with the detail design of a room, emphasises a relationship the broader and larger urban planning policies have with the smaller scale of people as they move through the city. So the course begins by asking you to define the critical spatial relationships of an urban room, and to specify your detailed material selections. The decisions you make about the selection of materials, their coming together through detailing, and the construction systems utilised actually defines an architectural relationship you've made with society and the planet. A knowledge of Country, environmental sustainability and planning documents, together with an analysis of the site, remain of high importance. When architecture is constructed, the materials you've specified leave a shadow in the planets resources, often in some distant location. Those materials, labour and energy become part of the construction itself, and the way they're designed and put together ultimately defines the value we get from this deficit, with longevity and a reduced maintenance being critical ways of recognising that value. In this way, your knowledge and analysis of the broader environment is embodied within the detail design of this smaller urban space.

You should at least be aware of the following documents;
- Food premises: Design, construction and fit-out guide.
- The Disability Discrimination Act
- Design for Access and Mobility - AS1428.1:2021
- The Mayfield Renewal Corridor element of this Newcastle City Council document.
- Connecting with Country framework.

Part 2 Assessment - Medium to Large

As the design process moves towards the Medium and Large scales, your Stream Leader will discuss their independent ways of approaching this design development. However, the purpose of this assessment is to develop a schematic design for a complex mix-use urban project that responds to the requirements of city planning, accessibility, affordability, environmental sustainability and equity. Refer to the Assessment Criteria as a way of realising the potential within the explanation of the Brief below.

The work you've completed in Part 1 will continue to be developed, and in addition to this, the Part 2 Assessment - Medium to Large will also involve the;
- design of any other ground floor retail and commercial spaces,
- considered design of how ground floor spaces meet the street in engaging ways,
- a recognition of the role a relationship with Country has within the places we live and work.
- design of a car parking area - one car parking space per dwelling. As required by the Mayfield Renewal Corridor plan from Newcastle City Council, none of this car-parking will be visible from Maitland Road, and should be setback from the boundary or underground.

- if designing residential above the ground, then these should be affordable, utilising courtyards where possible. The number of houses you are able to include on this relatively small site will be just a few. However, given the need for affordable housing in this location, you should attempt to include as many houses as you can, but ONLY when each house still provides the occupants with excellent amenity - a good use of light, air and outdoor courtyard spaces for instance. You'll also need to consider the requirements for access, fire stairs, building services and the like.

Part 2 Assessment - Medium to Large will also require you to be aware of how different Building Classifications (from the National Construction Code) interact with each other. As a summary;
- Retail outlets are Class 6.
- Carparking areas are Class 7a.
- Dwellings will be Class 2.
- Commercial space are Class 5.
- Public gathering spaces are Class 9.

In a real situation, designing a mixed-use building like this for Development Approval and construction would be relatively complex, and usually involve experienced architects and other specialist consultants. In addition to this, there are legislative requirements over the design of Class 2 buildings to ensure design competence through the construction stages. You should make yourself aware of these planning and construction standard requirements, but also realise that Development Control Plans and the National Construction Code are both 'Performance Based' documents. This means that you can propose design solutions that are outside the prescriptive elements of these codes if your proposal otherwise meets the intention of the code. This will be particularly relevant to you within your planning proposal. The effect of this is that if your proposal meets the higher level intentions of the codes (being sustainable, socially responsive and good for the local community for instance), then it doesn't have to limit itself to the prescriptive elements within the planning codes. So, you should be aware of the planning requirements that will effect development on the site, interpreting them to meet their broader objectives.

As a summary, you should at least be aware of the following documents;
• ABCB Handbook for Livable Housing Design,
• Building Classifications as identified in the National Construction Code,
• Requirements of Class 2 buildings in the National Construction Code
• Connecting with Country framework.

Relevant planning documents have also been made available to you in Canvas.

Ideally, establishing these regulatory requirements would be something that you can complete in groups, or as the entire class. They're standard requirements, but they way you interpret them can very different to others.

Assessment Criteria
1. A critical design approach to the schematic design has been developed using experimentation.
2. Design possibilities have been synthesised and tested in response to the projects physical, ecological, environmental, social, cultural, ethical dimensions.
3. The schematic design development of the project has been demonstrated.
4. Planning principles have been integrated within the technical, structural, and performative requirements of the project.
5. Research based propositions are evident within the selected communication methods.