London’s Olympic and Paralympic Village will be designed from the outset as an accessible and inclusive community, ensuring access and other design features for those with disabilities. It will also be designed in line with the Green Games Agenda.

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Overview
Students will look at designing the Olympic Village. They work alongside Kit Jameson, a contractor in charge of building the Olympic Village. He wants to build the accommodation as cheaply as possible but his partner is very concerned about the environmental impact.
In designing a village which is Green and Inclusive students will consider the following

• Think about where the olympic village should be built - whether green or brown field sites.
• Design inclusive accommodation, thinking of the different needs/uses by individual athletes
• Use space as efficiently as possible - looking at how rooms tesselate
• Look at the choices of building materials and the environmental impact of these choices

Time available: 6 hours


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Lesson number	Learning objetive	Overview	resources	extension
1 Teachers note	Distinguish between green field and brown field sites Look at the advantages and disadvantages of building on each site.	Students are introduced the two main characters 1) Contractor in charge of building the Olympic Village and wants to do it as cheaply as possible 2) Contracting partner who is worried about the environmental impact Look at where to build an Olympic Village - in terms of location near access/transport links, and green/brown field sites
2 Teachers note	Research needs and develop solutions to meet these needs Analyse needs using PIES To learn how to develop a specification from a given brief	They will design the inclusive accommodation of the athletes Students carry out PIES analysis of the needs of 4 different athletes Think of the accommodation - what rooms are needed, what electrical appliances will be needed (sockets) Think of Village - what entertainment, food, medical facilities.
3 Teachers note	Utilise plan drawings when generating ideas for the athletes accommodation	Students develop their plans of the accommodation making sure their specification meets the needs of the athletes living together Use idea of tesselation to make the most efficient design for the accomodation (could extend into layout of Village) Consider building dimensions to accomodate the appropriate number of atheletes - area, number of floors, volume, etc.
4 Teachers note	To describe the different properties of materials Testing materials	Students look at the useful properties of different materials to see what materials are used in the Olympic village and what properties do that have/need Students think of ways of testing different materials Introduced to terms reliable and accurate
5 Teachers note	Life cycle of materials Advantages and disadvantages of different materials - recycled or not.	Students look a the life cycle of differnt materials, and the environmental impact on making, using and disposing of them. Students campare the environmental impact of two different materials
6 Teachers note	presentation of topic	Who out of the two characters gets their way The eco friendly partner who wants the Village to have minimal environmental impact, or the boss who wants it done as quickly as possible - or can they both win?