Baubox is a project designed for Year 7 for students with little or no previous experience in working with wood. It uses the functionalist style founded in the Bauhaus design school as a starting point. The study of design styles will help you to understand the built environment and to appreciate how designers have responded to needs and culture. The Bauhaus project assumes that students have limited graphic communication skills, the fundamentals of graphics used in a design process will be explored.
Research
Knowledge & Understanding
Properties, uses and processing of wood and manufactured board
Ecological issues relating to wood and manufactured boards
The Bauhaus/Functionalist/ Modern Movement design style and its cultural importance throughout the 20th Century
Graphic communication through sketches, orthographic views and 3 dimensional drawings including using Google SketchUp
Design & Specification
Make & Manufacture
Tools & Keywords
Health & Safety
Diary of Making
Take photographs of each step whilst manufacturing your Baubox - identify the tools used and the health and safety aspect of each stage of manufacture. Testing & Evaluation
Write three test questions to test your finished Baubox
Write five evaluation questions in order to evaluate your finished Baubox
Table of Contents
Introduction - Baubox
Baubox is a project designed for Year 7 for students with little or no previous experience in working with wood. It uses the functionalist style founded in the Bauhaus design school as a starting point.The study of design styles will help you to understand the built environment and to appreciate how designers have responded to needs and culture. The Bauhaus project assumes that students have limited graphic communication skills, the fundamentals of graphics used in a design process will be explored.
Research
Knowledge & Understanding
Properties, uses and processing of wood and manufactured boardEcological issues relating to wood and manufactured boards
The Bauhaus/Functionalist/ Modern Movement design style and its cultural importance throughout the 20th Century
Graphic communication through sketches, orthographic views and 3 dimensional drawings including using Google SketchUp
Design & Specification
Make & Manufacture
Tools & Keywords
Health & Safety
Diary of Making
Take photographs of each step whilst manufacturing your Baubox - identify the tools used and the health and safety aspect of each stage of manufacture.
Testing & Evaluation
Write three test questions to test your finished Baubox
Write five evaluation questions in order to evaluate your finished Baubox
Assessment & Grading Criteria
Google SketchUp
Google SketchUp Introduction Part 1Google SketchUp Introduction Part 2
Google SketchUp Introduction Part 3
Google SketchUp Introduction Part 4
All these videos can be found on the Google SketchUp Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL01iW9DAEU&list=PL38D0A996E0154E12
and
https://www.youtube.com/user/SketchUpVideo/videos
https://www.sketchup.com/learn/videos/836
Extension Activities
Dimensions and Paint & MaterialsCreating an animation/flyby of your object and saving it to YouTube
Links & Resources
Here is a link to a similar project:
http://web.sis.edu.hk/departments/dt/d&t/index/KS3/Briefhaus/Briefhaus.html