1. Group Design Movement Investigation
Your Task;
To work in a team to investigate the Archigram movement and the impact of this movement on product design
Deliverables…
All students must produce a product analysis.
All students must produce a specification
You must choose a range of household objects and re-design them in the style of your movement.
You must then present your ideas in the form of a Third Angle Orthographic drawing.
You will then gather your team together and give a short 3 – 5 minute presentation on the movement, what it is, what impact it has had on the design world. Then how your designs have been influenced.
*Scan in all third angle drawings so that you can use them in your presentations.

2. Archigram Design Movement
Tasks to be completed…..
Analyse the information provided on the design movement.
Conduct a product analysis and create a specification
Using this information and the design movement information redesign your product – 2 design ideas
Draw one of these in isometric / orthographic projection

3. These lines must be light. These are the Construction lines
Third Angle Orthographic Projection
These lines must be light. These are the Construction lines
Isometric View
Orthographic Projection is a way of drawing an object from different directions. Usually a front, side and plan view are drawn so that a person looking at the drawing can see all the important sides. Orthographic drawings are useful especially when a design has been developed to a stage whereby it is almost ready to manufacture.

4. Third Angle Orthographic Projection
Complete the third angle projection below and draw the isometric version of it
Isometric View

5. Third Angle Orthographic Projection – Draw the object here in third angle orthographic projection

6. Third Angle Orthographic Projection – Draw the object here in isometric view

7. Design Process – (Design Movements, Product analysis – reverse specification, Ideas, Isometric)
Archigram
… dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early 1970s with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future after its formation in 1961 by a group of young London architects – Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb.
“A new generation of architecture must arise with forms and spaces which seems to reject the precepts of ‘Modern’ yet in fact retains those precepts. We have chosen to by pass the decaying Bauhaus image which is an insult to functionalism. You can roll out steel – any length. You can blow up a balloon – any size. You can mould plastic – any shape. Blokes that built the Forth Bridge – they didn’t worry.”
Archigram was defined less by a specific set of principles, than by an optimistic spirit. Its members shared a refusal to be shackled by the past – “The pre-packaged frozen lunch is more important than Palladio,” opined Peter Cook – and a belief that the potent combination of social change and technological advance would foster a more humane architecture equipped to embrace the complexities and opportunities of contemporary life. One of its strengths was the diversity of a group in which the six core members and their collaborators came from very different backgrounds with different skills and enthusiasms. “The overlap was an enjoyment of teasing,” wrote Cook, “teasing the architectural extremity, and most of the architectural language.”

8. Product Analysis – Product analysis is probably the most useful research you can undertake. It involves looking carefully at a product, taking it apart (or imagining taking it apart) and working out how it was made
You are expected to consider the wider implications of designing and manufacturing. Can the product be recycled? What does its life cycle look like? What has been the effect of this product on our lifestyles? Is a particular group of people excluded from using the product?

9. Specification – Your specification should provide a detailed description of what the product is to be. It should reflect information found in your research and a third party should be able to use your specification to start to plan and develop ideas which would result in a final product.
Important criteria to consider; Target Market, Function, Size, Weight, Durability, Aesthetics, Materials, Safety, Cost, Environmental Issues, Manufacture, Packaging

10. Initial Ideas x 2 – You are to take the information in your specification, the product analysis, the design movement and redesign the product on the front sheet

11. 3rd Angle Projection Symbol
Third Angle Orthographic view of the chosen idea
3rd Angle Projection Symbol
Appropriate sizes must be included on this diagram, all relevant detail, and must adhere to the Third Angle Standards