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Introduction to 3d Design
This studio course is one of the foundations of the Architectural Studies Major at Hobart and William Smith, and is meant to introduce students to prominent modeling materials such as cardstock, chipboard, plaster, aluminum flashing, wood, and plexiglass. The work done in this class represents some of the first models I ever built and is the first studio course that I took as an architecture student.
Study Models:
Exploring Materiality
Paper
A series of quick, small models produced over the course of the semester; meant to introduce students to working with various modeling materials.
Chipboard
Aluminum Flashing + Wire
Plexiglass
Study Models
Final Project
Final Project:
Materializing Action
For our final project, developed over the course of the second half of the semester, each student picked an action word from a hat. Some of the verbs were, for example: "drop", "collide", and "implode". The assignment required the use of at least two of the materials explored earlier in the semester, and for the final model to fit within a 6" x 6" cube.
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I received the word "shatter", and chose to represent the process through an object being forcefully fragmented from within. The final model is rendered in high-quality plywood and plexiglass. My goal was to utilize the model's dual materiality to construct a narrative of opposing forces.
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I created a 4" x 4" cube out of the plywood, lightly staining only the original interior and exterior in order to emphasize the broken nature of the object. I then used a band saw to cut out fragments from the original box, and glued them at angles to strategically allow the model to prop at an angle as well as give the illusion of pieces suspended in space at the moment of impact. I wanted to create an abstract representation of the force inside the box causing it to explode, and decided to warp the plexiglass using a heat gun to create more organic forms to oppose the rigid lines of the wood.
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