Poster: Model It. Workshop 1

To sum up this workshop I choose to use a photo of the first design. This seemed to best represent all the features. This project had been most interesting in terms of learning. It had helped me to acquire the techniques and develop the precision that I would need when working on future models. It also gave me the tools and the ability to develop ideas through the model making process and "Explore" the reality of a structure.

Model It. Week 3: Fisher House 1:50

Below are the pictures of the final Task of the "Model It" component. The second, third, and fourth photo show the interior of the basement, first floor, and second floor. The aim was to recreate the fisher house with as much accuracy and details as possible  (example: Kitchen window box bellow). I found I spent alot of time on this one corner of the house, refering to the plan and multiple photos to try and get it right. 

A final reflection on this project is that through making the model I understood something that I had originally thought was a result of bad designing. Windows around the house are often indented, of various size and shape and are often intersected by beams. It can easily be seen from the photos that this design feature promotes spacial diversity in the house and gives atmosphere.

Model It. Week 3: In-class exercise

This Exercise was an introduction to the fisher house. This corner of the house was complicated. I choose to include as much detail as possible to represent what the house looked like.

This was perhaps the hardest part of the house as it was difficult to know what was actually happening from the plans. 

Model It. Week 2: Fisher Site Model

This task was difficult due to the scale. Since balsa could not run the length of the model internal walls were used to give the sloop. 

Once again I experimented with materials to represent certain features on the site. the trees were made from the bristly material off a kitchen scouring pad while the stream was represented by plaster that was allowed to crack. 

Model It. Week 2: In-class excercise

With these conceptual designs I played with the limitations of the material used: balsa. I didn't stay true to the overall aim of this task and rather moved away from it as you can see from the progression of models. But this class for me was more about experimenting with the medium and developing an idea aimed towards a final design for a building. 

Model It. Week 1: Barcelona Pavillion by Miles van der Rohe

Moving on from the in-class exercise, I was very careful with the dimensions and materials used in this model as I tried to stay true to the original design. I choose a very simple deconstruction of the model where the office pulls away and the  roof of the main space comes off with the plastic windows attached. This seemed the most appropriate deconstruction as the office was purely functional and the removal of the windows lets you see the simplicity of the interior space. 

Model It. Week 1: In-class exercise

The first exercise in the modelling component required the construction of an 80cm*80cm house. In the second part we had to make the same house again but with windows and finally we were to join these two together. 

The first two images show my first attempt. I had a lot of problems to begin with. For example the balsa was of poor quality, cracking and splitting, the walls  and the roof didn't match up and the orientation of each piece was all over the place. So I took the model home and repeated the exercise. 

The hardest part of this attempt was getting the cut-out right so that each house sat at an angle. The lower house contains a weight to stabilise the structure. I liked the idea of creating something unrealistic and using my fledgling Engineering knowledge.