Redesign proposal

Pick one audited door and propose a specific, buildable fix — hardware, signage and access, argued together rather than as three separate ideas

Due: 19 April 2027 · Weight: 25%

The brief#

Take one door from your audit and redesign it — hardware, signage and access — so that the specific failure you found stops happening.

Pick your worst door, not your funniest one. A redesign proposal is judged on whether it would actually fix what you diagnosed, which means the diagnosis has to survive from the audit into this document unchanged. A lot of proposals quietly redesign a different, easier problem than the one their own audit entry described; the studio time in weeks 6 and 7, and the crit in week 8, exist to catch this before it’s graded.

Weeks 5 and 7 gave you the two lenses this proposal has to hold at once: access (would this pass a real compliance review, for someone who isn’t you) and trust (does the hardware tell the truth about what it does, or does it perform security it doesn’t provide). A proposal that nails one and ignores the other is half the assignment.

What you submit#

A written proposal with drawings or annotated photos: the door as it is, the specific failure, and the redesign, specified in enough detail — hardware model or type, signage wording and placement, clearances — that someone else could build roughly what you mean. Prose alone, however well argued, is not enough; show the thing.