Week 7 Studio Activity: Light and Scale (Part 2)

Here you can see that I have added an atrium/ceiling window to the model. This has been strategically placed to serve a purpose, to provide natural lighting from the sun to the desk in the room. As you can see in the real room for reference. This is effective as the sun goes over the house throughout the middle of the day, when individuals are most productive and likely to be working at their desk/office area.

Personal critique: the model would be far more effective and accurate with additional models of the furniture inside the current model. This is now difficult as the model is now closed off, making it difficult to insert them. However, this is something I will take in to consideration for my next model.

Week 7 Studio Activity: Light and Scale

This week I explored the effects of light on the 1:15 scale model I constructed last week. The images produced a dramatic and specific representation of the effects of light on the model as my torch accentuated every detail of the window, through its shadow in the empty space, unlike how it does in reality.

The use of light in these pictures accurately demonstrate the effects of the behaviour of the sun rising in the morning. I have included pictures of the real life space as it highlights the way lights up the room and directs on to the bed, acting as a natural alarm clock.

I am going to adjust last weeks model by adding new points of entry for light to increase the functionality and natural lighting in other parts of the room that aren't directly impacted by the single window structure that is currently in the space. As well as, human models to add context and emphasis to the scale of the model.

Week 5: Studio Activity - Part 2

Part 2 - Constructing the Model

I began by cutting out my templates as seen below:

The first issue I encountered was my poor planning in terms of the connection flaps. I has created too many flaps that over lapped with other flaps, forgetting to create space for the flaps to connect with other walls and surfaces of the model.

I then tranced my templates on to my model material. The material I chose was a broken down 'Hahn Super Dry' beer carton as it was large enough to allow for me to use the same material to construct the entire model.

Here, you can see how I amended my templates to create better connection points to glue together each surface.

Another amendment I made to my template was for my window. As the template just started out as a single outline to represent the window frame, I added in the four specific windows to add detail and accuracy to my model. I also used hatching as a technique to demonstrate solid structure vs what needed to be cut out.

The final product:

Week 5 Studio Activity - Part 1

3D Model Making of my Room Process: Part 1 - Planning


I began by measuring the length of my walls and other characteristics of my room such as the window and door. The original scale was meant to be 1:10, however this was too large and difficult to work with so I changed the scale to 1:15.

I then used my ruler and A3 sketch pad to draw out the templates of my model.

This was the end of my planning stage, in the next blog post I will show how I used the templates, my chosen material to construct the model, as well as issues I found encountered.

Week 3: Studio Activities

Week 1: Studio Activities

Learning how to use the different types of pens and pencils within the kit:

Drawing an upside down chair with my dominant hand (right):

Drawing an upside down chair with my non-dominant hand (left):

Drawing an upside down chair with my dominant hand (right), without looking at the page and without taking my pen off the page:

Drawing an upside down chair with my non-dominant hand (left), without looking at the page and without taking my pen off the page:

Drawing an upside down chair with my dominant hand (right), experimenting with charcoal pencils.

Drawing parts of my site with my dominant hand (right), without looking at the page and without taking my pen off the page:

Artwork (statue):

Tree:

Goldstein Hall:

Stairs:

Drawing parts of my site with my dominant hand (right):

Goldstein Hall:

Artwork (statue):