1603 REPORT ENTRY R2 - W03 The Services Workshop (Workshop 03) talked about the need to design in your services/ environmental strategy at the very beginning of your project. These essential considerations are not ‘bolt-ons’ that can be addressed at the end of your design process. The workshop also talked about the philosophy of hidden or exposed services and how you will need to make a decision about which of the two alternatives you want to follow. R-Block is a building that follows the exposed services (visible services) strategy not necessarily from an aesthetic viewpoint but from a ‘we don’t have a finishes schedule that allow services to become hidden’. For this report submission you are to survey 1R 011 and draw a 1:20 short section of the room. This section will pass through the windows on one side and the door on the other (don’t forget the fanlight above the door!). This section is to show the existing service runs (data, lighting, heating & ventilation) but employing finishes in your design. These finishes might include a raised floor, dropped ceiling, in built ducting and trunking etc. Your drawing is to be a proper finished drawing fully annotated to describe how you are managing the finishes to accommodate the services. For instance, if you decide that you want to introduce a dropped ceiling (ceiling tiles in a metal grid - see Q block) then you must show and annotate your drawing to indicate how you are overcoming the loss of thermal mass provided currently by the concrete planks (the existing floors), how you are fixing the ceiling to the walls (don’t forget the fanlight above the door!), how you are accommodating the large windows etc etc. The task is made more difficult because this is a retrofit but that is the moral of the story - design this stuff in to your project at the beginning. Undertaking this task will show you how difficult it is to change one strategy to another after the event. Your drawing should fit neatly onto an A1 sheet and can be folded like the drawing from Workshop 03 into your final submission.