Key disciplines: Architecture, Drawing, Sketchbooks, Collage, Making

Aims:  To provide the children with the opportunity to explore architecture and the ways in which architects work.

Outcomes: To develop an architectural model based on the world around them.

This unit aims to introduce children to the idea that architects design and make buildings, and to give them the opportunity to explore architecture around them, and to create their own architectural models. We will look at the work of Hundertwasser and make visual responses in our sketchbooks. We'll use the 'design through making' approach in which the children will take time to understand what different materials can do, and how they can manipulate materials and fasten them together. The children will be encouraged to be inventive about what kinds of shapes and structure they use and which three dimensional forms they create.

Key questions they will be asked to think about: How will your of architecture stand? What is its purpose? Who is it for?

Themes: Habitat Community, Culture, Purpose

Medium: pencils, handwriting pens, construction  materials - lolly sticks, card, string, boxes, pipe cleaners, straws, foam board, elastic bands

Artists: Hundertwasser, Zaha Hadid