BUILD · Explore Art · Teesside Studio Suite · Spring 2 Week 1 of 6
Armature & Frame
Explore Part A · Take Part
🎯 Learning objective: I can build and improve a frame so it stands and can still change.
✅ Success criteria
- I can name base, joint and brace.
- I can show one weak point and one fix.
- I can say, sign, point or scribe why the change helped.
🏗 3D sculpture⏱ 40-minute coreReading age 6–9 · one visible decision at a time🔁 Lundy live loop
SPRING 2 · TEESWORKS & RECLAIMED SPACES
FRAME → VOID → SKIN → CONTEXT → SITE → PROPOSE & INFLUENCE
FRAME → VOID → SKIN → CONTEXT → SITE → PROPOSE & INFLUENCE
Inherited
Unit entry: retrieve safe joining, balance and simple 3D construction from earlier making.
Unit entry: retrieve safe joining, balance and simple 3D construction from earlier making.
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Feeds next
The standing, alterable frame becomes the form whose scale and gaps are tested in Week 2.
The standing, alterable frame becomes the form whose scale and gaps are tested in Week 2.
BUILD entryNotice, handle and choose with support.
BUILD secureMake one visible change and explain its effect.
GROW reachCompare a protected baseline with a purposeful revision.
Qualification guardrail: This lesson can support Trinity Arts Award Explore evidence. The page and finished object do not certify the award; a trained adviser must audit the pupil’s own decision, action and review in the full personal arts log.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · oxide
AUDIENCE · river
INFLUENCE · foundry
Predictable Space comes before artistic demand; the pathway describes support and reasoning, never a fixed pupil label.
⏱ 3 min
🚪 Arrival · retrieve the studio threadInherited
Unit entry: retrieve safe joining, balance and simple 3D construction from earlier making.
Unit entry: retrieve safe joining, balance and simple 3D construction from earlier making.
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Feeds next
The standing, alterable frame becomes the form whose scale and gaps are tested in Week 2.
The standing, alterable frame becomes the form whose scale and gaps are tested in Week 2.
2 × 2 retrieval ladder
LAST LESSONWhere have you made something stand before? Point, sketch or say one useful joining idea.
LAST WEEK / CORE WORDSMatch base, upright, joint and brace to the concept diagram.
LAST TERMWhich 2D shape usually resists squashing: triangle, square or circle? Show why with strips.
GREATER DEPTHHow can a reclaimed industrial frame look light but still suggest strength?
Response routes: point/choose · say/sign · show/make · draw/write · retry/adapt · authorised photo/clip · pass. Quiet response and pass/return-later are valid.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · oxide
AUDIENCE · river
INFLUENCE · foundry
Retrieve privately. If recall is secure, fade the content prompt; keep sensory, motor and navigation access.
⏱ 3 min
🌱 Starter · notice before namingWhat makes a structure stand up — and still let you change your mind?
Commit to one panel before the explanation. The diagnostic identifies a teaching need, not a pupil label.
Too weak
The frame folds or collapses when the table is gently tapped.
Too rigid
The frame is so heavy or fixed that the maker cannot revise it.
Useful balance
The frame stands, a triangle resists deformation, and joints can still be changed.
Fix: point to the visible clue that would move the first or second example towards the third.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · oxide
AUDIENCE · river
INFLUENCE · foundry
The learner may point, make, say, sign, write or ask for accurate scribing before adult explanation.
⏱ 4 min
👩🎨 I Do · model one visible decisionTeacher model · decision, action, evidence
1 · Start with a low, broad base. Name what must touch the table; do not decorate yet.
2 · Build two uprights and a crosspiece. Tap the table gently and observe the movement rather than calling it ‘bad’.
3 · Add one diagonal brace to make a triangle. Retest and say exactly what moved less — while keeping a joint reversible.
Think aloud: “I am not hunting for a perfect sculpture. I am isolating one visible cause so I can explain my next move.”
SPACE · steel
VOICE · oxide
AUDIENCE · river
INFLUENCE · foundry
Model the reasoning and the useful failure. Do not pre-make the pupil’s artistic choice.
⏱ 3 min
🤝 We Do · commit, then receiveCommit before reveal
Which next move gives the clearest evidence that a brace caused the improvement?
Choose one response, then compare the evidence.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · oxide
AUDIENCE · river
INFLUENCE · foundry
Adult receives the learner’s first judgement; the explanation changes the next prompt or practical setup.
⏱ 3 min
👩🎨 I Do 2 · connect the studio habitTransfer the studio habit
1 · Use the side view as well as the front view: a frame that stands from one angle may still fold from another.
2 · Record authorship honestly: adult-cut card or held material is support; the pupil’s frame route and brace decision remain the art evidence.
Recovery route: Slot-only card frame: one base, two uprights and one brace. No wire or glue gun.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · oxide
AUDIENCE · river
INFLUENCE · foundry
Change access before increasing content prompts. Recovery targets the same award part and preserves authorship.
⏱ 4 min
🤝 We Do 2 · interactive studio probeArmature Brace Lab
Armature Brace Lab
Choose a brace route, freeze the result, then name the visible evidence. The indicator is a rehearsal — not structural certification.
Start with A. Make a prediction or observation before choosing the next state.
Transfer: Name the visible cause and effect, then repeat it physically. A click is rehearsal; the pupil’s made test and reason are the evidence.
Digital interaction is a rehearsal only. It stores nothing and is not portfolio evidence.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · oxide
AUDIENCE · river
INFLUENCE · foundry
Freeze the visual result, name the evidence and let it influence the physical test.
⏱ 16 min
🎨 Independent · make evidence, not complianceIndependent studio mission
Build a hand-sized tabletop armature for a reclaimed-space sculpture. Test it, locate one weak point, make one visible revision and keep the form changeable.
◆ Supported · use prepared parts, two choices and pointing/saying/accurate scribing; make one pupil-owned decision.
▲ Standard · make a baseline, one visible revision and a short reason.
★ Stretch · compare another viewpoint or condition and explain a trade-off; do not add writing for its own sake.
EquipmentCard strips and bases; masking tape; scissors; optional wire/cutters or glue-gun bench; ruler; pencil.
Safety / accessUse the card-slot route for zero wire/zero hot glue. At controlled benches: goggles where required, wire offcuts down into a tray, cut ends folded/taped/capped, hot glue gun on its rest. Count tools out and in.
Evidence targetStanding frame + baseline/revision sketch or authorised photo + weak point fixed + pupil reason.
Closed-kit parity: Pre-cut card strips and slots, masking tape and a broad base. The pupil still chooses the frame shape and brace position.
1pupil decision
2observable studio work
3pupil meaning/review
SPACE · steel
VOICE · oxide
AUDIENCE · river
INFLUENCE · foundry
Pupil decision, observable action and pupil reasoning stay together. Record adult preparation or scribing separately.
⏱ 4 min
🎫 Exit · response changes the next studio moveExit ticket · receive, respond, report back
Complete through speaking, pointing, drawing, writing or accurate adult scribing:
My structure is ____. It stands because ____. The weak point was ____ and I fixed it by ____.
AUDIENCE
A named adult says what they genuinely received from the pupil’s work/reasoning before any code is recorded.
INFLUENCE
The pupil’s test changes which scale figure, pre-cutting, material route or modelling support is prepared for Week 2.
Authorship check: pupil decision/reason: __________ · adult preparation/modelling/scribing: __________
Inherited
Unit entry: retrieve safe joining, balance and simple 3D construction from earlier making.
Unit entry: retrieve safe joining, balance and simple 3D construction from earlier making.
→
Feeds next
The standing, alterable frame becomes the form whose scale and gaps are tested in Week 2.
The standing, alterable frame becomes the form whose scale and gaps are tested in Week 2.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · oxide
AUDIENCE · river
INFLUENCE · foundry
Voice reaches a real Audience and causes a visible next move. Nothing is stored by this page.