Visualising the school architecture

Despite the cool winter morning, our Year 11 Visual Communication Design students ventured into the elements to perform observational drawings of school buildings to help understand their context.

The term context in VCD refers to where (and when) a design is made, read, or used. Although every design has an important relationship with its context, this is of prime importance for environmental design.

The chief concern of context is where a design will be located. Architects consider aspects such as what a site looks like, what other designs around the site look like and how the site functions with respect to a desired or undesired view and its orientation.

Designers make choices regarding materials, colours, and heights with a full awareness of the other buildings around them.  

With this in mind, students considered whether buildings around BSC are sensitive to their context. For example, was the N Block designed and built to complement or contrast the hall?