Overview: What and Why

You have been on a long design journey:

• reading a site and testing three massing strategies against sun, wind and noise
• developing a massing into a schematic building with a tested facade
• translating that into real construction with assemblies, thermal properties and a core
• fitting out the interiors and producing a drawing set someone else could build from
• laying out a structure and deciding where the load goes
• choosing an HVAC strategy and discovering what your envelope handed the mechanical engineer
• routing plumbing under gravity and powering and lighting the result
• assembling all five models and finding out where they disagreed

This week you step back and tell the story of that journey.

The final deliverable is not more modeling. It is a synthesis: a poster, a reflection, and a final coordinated model set. You are being asked to explain what you did, why, what worked, and what you would do differently. That skill matters more in practice than any single modeling technique in this course.

Focus: What You Are Producing This Week

• A final poster presenting the whole project
• A final reflection on the design journey
• A final coordinated model set published to Forma Data Management
• A presentation at the Week 10 review

Design Program

The poster

One sheet, 24 by 36 inches, portrait, designed at the correct aspect ratio in Google Slides, PowerPoint or your tool of choice. It must include:

1.  Project summary. Your site, your building, your program. Regardless of how far you got through the modules, summarise the project and the site you chose.

2.  Goals. What you set out to achieve, and an honest report on how the final design meets those goals.

4.  Final visualisations, two or three hero images:

6.  One exterior rendering

7.  One view highlighting interdisciplinary features, meaning a coordination view showing multiple systems together

8.  Optionally one interior view

The reflection

An executive summary posted to Notion. Do not repeat the detailed analysis from earlier weeks. Instead reflect on:

• Key or unique design features you explored
• Your big successes. What worked well, and what are you most proud to share as an example for others?
• Your big challenges. What created the most difficulty, and what would you do differently in hindsight?
• Lessons learned. What advice would you give a student starting this project next year?

The model set

All final models published to a folder named Final Check-In in Forma Data Management: architectural, site if separate, structural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, plus the merged coordination model.

Getting Started

1.  Reread your own design memos from Weeks 2 through 9 before you write anything. The story is already there, written by you, week by week.

2.  Choose your hero images early. Good renders take iteration, and the coordination view needs to be composed deliberately rather than screenshotted.

3.  Draft the poster at full size from the start. Text sized for a laptop screen is unreadable on a printed 24 by 36 sheet.

4.  Write the reflection last, after the poster forces you to decide what the project was actually about.

5.  Publish the final model set before the poster deadline, not after.

How This Week Is Different

There is no new modeling technique and no new tool. Everything this week is judgment, editing and communication. The hardest decision is what to leave out. Your project contains ten weeks of work and the poster holds perhaps eight percent of it. Choosing well is the assignment.

What's Expected

1.  A finished poster at 24 by 36, meeting the content requirements above.

2.  A reflection posted to Notion covering features, successes, challenges and lessons learned.

3.  A complete final model set in the Final Check-In folder, plus the merged coordination model.

4.  A presentation at the Week 10 review.

5.  Substantive engagement with at least two classmates' projects during the review.

What to Submit

1.  Poster as PDF, 24 by 36, and uploaded to the shared class poster drive.

2.  Reflection posted on the Module 10 Notion gallery page.

3.  Working link to the Final Check-In folder in Forma Data Management.

4.  Working link to the merged coordination model.

Share Your Results

Publish your poster to your individual Forma Board and add it to the Shared Class Board. Present at the Week 10 poster session. Come prepared to speak for four minutes with nothing but your poster, and to answer questions about any decision you made in any week.

Points to Ponder

Please share your comments on 3 of the following 5 questions on this linked Notion page.