Students will explore what makes a building space functional, examine simple electricity and control components, begin noticing user needs in everyday spaces, and create an early evidence-based concept to carry into research and planning.

Students will investigate how real people use spaces, gather evidence through interviews and observations, organize patterns into empathy artifacts, and turn those findings into a draft design brief with measurable criteria and constraints for a functional building model.

Students will synthesize user research into a clear problem definition for a functional building model, identify criteria and constraints, connect user needs to possible electrical, mechanical, and control features, and revise their design brief through peer and teacher feedback before a milestone check.

Students will generate multiple building-system ideas, evaluate them against user-based criteria, create low-fidelity prototypes, gather authentic feedback, and document the first revision path for their team model.

Students will refine and validate their functional building models through data-driven testing, peer critique, and stakeholder feedback, then prepare a concise evidence-based presentation of their design journey and final decisions.

Students will present their functional smart space models to authentic audiences, use final feedback to strengthen how they explain their design choices, and complete a summative exhibition of evidence showing how user needs, science ideas, and test results shaped the final product.