Contextual Design Activities
These contextual design activities are here to help develop your understanding of how design impacts upon our lives and the world we live in. Also, they show how designers and architects are trying to create something which is functional as well as beautiful and still have something to say.
Most of these studies include photo sheets, worksheets and PowerPoints to enable flexibility in their delivery.
These activities make great starters and their use can be adjusted depending upon your lesson structure and what time you have in the lesson
Click on the links below to take you their resources page:
Case Study A – Blackfriars Station, London
AIM – Show how to think outside the box to solve a problem and to enhance the buildings use and access even more through an imaginative and, in hindsight, as obvious solution.
Contents:
- Work Sheet
- Photo Sheet
- PowerPoint Presentation
Case Study B – London Bridge Station, London
AIM – To improve the traveller’s experience and to unify all the disjointed aspects of the previous building and to create a safe and calm environment.
Content:
- Work Sheet
- Photo Sheet
- PowerPoint Presentation
Case Study C – New Street Station, Birmingham
AIM – To create a building fit for purpose and introduce light and space to not only improve access, but also the traveller’s experience
Contect:
- Work Sheet
- Photo Sheet
- PowerPoint Presentation
Case Study D – Kings Cross Station, London
AIM – To show by addition, repositioning and imagination, you can create a building that is not only fit for purpose, but also have an emotional impact
Content:
- Work Sheet
- Photo Sheet
Case Study E – St. Pancras Station, London
AIM – To show how architecture can use architectural styles to send a clear message. Mixing old with the new, and finding a new purpose for a redundant building.
Contents:
- Work Sheet
- Photo Sheet
- PowerPoint Presentation