AS 91340 Annotated exemplars

This annotated exemplar is intended for teacher use only. Annotated exemplars are extracts of student evidence, with commentary, that explain key parts of a standard. These help teachers make assessment judgements at the grade boundaries.

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For Excellence, the student needs to use the characteristics of a design movement or era to effectively inform their own design ideas.

This involves generating design ideas where it is evident that the identified characteristics of the design movement or era have been interpreted and embedded into the design ideas.

This student has designed a structure (building), and provided descriptions of the design era of high-tech modernism. They have also described the social factors that have influenced the design era or movement, linking the era to the Space Race (1).

The student has explained the elements of design that characterise the design era, and there are good links to the relevant chosen images (2) that support the explanation.

The characteristics of the era flow into the idea generation (3) and exploration (4). The high-tech modernist characteristics start to become integrated (5) and embedded into the design ideas.

For a more secure Excellence, the student could show a stronger interpretation of the characteristics of the design era into their own design ideas.

For Merit, the student needs to use the characteristics of a design movement or era to clearly inform their own design ideas.

This involves:

• explaining the elements of design that characterise the design movement or era
• generating design ideas where it is evident that the identified characteristics of the design movement or era have been linked to the design ideas in a considered manner.

This student has designed a structure (building) and has provided descriptions of the de-constructivism and minimalism design era (1). They have also described the related social factors that have influenced the design era (2).

The student has clearly explained the elements of design that characterise the era throughout the portfolio.

Images (3) show how the design ideas have been linked in a considered manner to the design era characteristics (4).

For Excellence, the student could further interpret the characteristics of de-constructivism/minimalism, and integrate these further into the design ideas to show how they have been fully embedded. The ideas tend to be linked to the era characteristics rather than being interpreted and embedded.

For Merit, the student needs to use the characteristics of a design movement or era to clearly inform their own design ideas.

This involves:

• explaining the elements of design that characterise the design movement or era
• generating design ideas where it is evident that the identified characteristics of the design movement or era have been linked to the design ideas in a considered manner.

This student has designed a structure and used the minimalist design era influences and Mies van der Rohe’s influence (1).

The social influences are lightly covered, with references back to World War 2 (WW2) and Dutch neo-plasticism and Russian influences (2).

The student describes the characteristics of the era and starts to explain them (3).

There are good visual links back to the design characteristics of the era in the development of design ideas (4) with the use of columns as support beams, the use of glass and straight uncluttered lines.

For a more secure Merit, the student could deepen the explanation of the characteristics of the design era, maintaining a broader focus on the era instead of individual designers from within that era such as van der Rohe. The visual linkage between the design ideas and the design era could also be expanded to better show the connections.

For Achieved, the student needs to use the characteristics of a design movement or era to inform their own design ideas.

This involves:

• describing the way elements of design are used within the design movement or era
• describing social factors that influenced the design movement or era
• generating design ideas that incorporate the identified characteristics of a design era or movement.

The student has designed a structure (building) and has provided a description of the elements that characterise the minimalism design era (1).

The social factors that influenced the design movement or era are shown (2).

The social factors are also embedded in the research phase, i.e: the contact with nature and simple shapes (3).

The student uses a range of basic mock-ups to show some of the forms associated with minimalism. These mock-ups help to show how the design ideas have been informed.

To reach Merit, the student could show more depth in the description of how the social factors have influenced the design era or movement.

The ideas and identified characteristics need to show more links to meet the criteria of ‘clearly inform’. The image (4) talks about light, which is a characteristic, however this would need to be further developed and be more consistent across the development of the design ideas.

For Achieved, the student needs to use the characteristics of a design movement or era to inform their own design ideas.

This involves:

• describing the way elements of design are used within the design movement or era
• describing social factors that influenced the design movement or era
• generating design ideas that incorporate the identified characteristics of a design era or movement.

This student has designed a structure using the influence of the Modernist Architecture design era.

The student has identified and described the basic characteristics of the era (1), e.g. simple designs, steel glass and concrete, white walls. The student’s description starts to explain these characteristics.

The social influences that affected the design era have been described, i.e: WW2 and the more simplistic feel of architecture after the war years (2).

The student’s own design ideas have some linkage to the identified characteristics, e.g. the expansive use of glass and clean lines and start to incorporate these characteristics into their ideas (3).

For a more secure Achieved, the student could show more linkage between the characteristics of the era or movement and the design ideas explored, to show how the characteristics of the era have been incorporated.

For Achieved, the student needs to use the characteristics of a design movement or era to inform own design ideas.

This involves:

• describing the way elements of design are used within the design movement or era
• describing social factors that influenced the design movement or era.

This student has provided some research into the modernist era, focusing on the architect I. M. Pei. The student has produced a chair design.

The interlocking shapes (2) should link back to the design characteristics identified, which are mainly angular shaped forms.

To reach Achieved, the student could enhance the description of the social factors, and the description of the way the elements of design are used to provide the depth expected. The focus should be expanded to look at the design era or movement in a broader sense. The reference to modernism (1) should be expanded to an era rather than a focus on one particular designer (I.M. Pei).