Learning Goals
Students will be able to select geometric shapes for city buildings and calculate each building's base area, surface area, and volume to match its purpose.
Students will be able to analyze building dimensions and density relationships to justify why a hospital, school, police station, or housing unit fits its role in a city.
Students will be able to communicate and revise a city building design using peer feedback and critique from a building design professional.
Products
Individual City Building Design Notebook
Each student creates a notebook showing three distinct building concepts, labeled sketches, and a weighted decision matrix for one selected city building. The notebook includes calculations for base area, surface area, and volume plus a written justification explaining why the final design best fits its community purpose.
Neighborhood Build-a-City Planning Poster and Prototype Map
Teams design a small city display with a functional scale model or poster map showing multiple buildings, each labeled with purpose, dimensions, base area, surface area, and volume. The final display must reflect at least one revision based on testing or feedback and include evidence of trade-offs and design choices.
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