Workshop 5 - Draft Model

During the first week experience of the site, we concluded three main words to describe it: trapped, chimneys and shadows. In order to convey these, we discussed and drew out a few drawings on it. After that we started to build out our models. The model shown below is my combination of all my designs:

From this side of model you can see the walls are cut with  various sizes of triangles. Some of those are cut through and some just been teared the top layer, leaving only the white part of the board. You can also see on the opposite side the random polygons forms a square border of that side. This cutting is used to have different light shining on the chimneys and hence have different shadows at any angle we put.

The middle part are cut with rectangles in various sizes and some of those are built with rectangular columns to represent the chimneys and some just left as a hole to show different depths of the model.

This is just another way of placing the model giving you another view of the shadows.

In my original design, the empty space is topped with an acetate so that the box is closed but it is transparent on one side. It is like the situation of the site, with sky on top, random geometry on one side, strict structure on the other side and chimneys all around us. But because of lack of time management, I didn't finish the top layer of me model.

However, the model is considered as a "failure" on nearly all of six sides, as five of those sides are just 2-D design, giving no architectural spaces from the workshop requirement.

After the discussion with Haris and Meeray, we gained some ideas of how we should construct our new models: develop the chimney side of our model into greater depth, maybe some of the columns could extend on the other side and windows might be cut on the chimneys to give more views of the model.

We started our design by measuring the golden ratio, we firstly cut out a 20×20 board and drew the golden ratio on top, then by following the patterns, we could draw the corresponding rectangles on top. After we cut the holes on one of the board, we just place the first board on the second to find out the position of each of the rectangles. Then my partner and I take one board each to home for further development.