Model-it! week 2

 From last week, the Take - home task was to make a 1:200 model of  the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe. We were given the plans and drawings and also it should be made of balsa wood, but for the water (pool) we were able to choose the material freely.

 For the material selection, I decided to make the pool with the blue plastic bag on a plain white board. Also, I went to Art shop in Newtown to buy the balsa woods board with various thicknesses. All modelling process was done with UHU glue.

 Firstly, I scaled the plan to 1:200 and reprinted it. Firstly, I made the base of the house including base of pool with the most thick balsa wood then pile them up to the right height of the base. Then stick the wall on the base and made removable roof for the house.

 The interesting part was that the wall of house are 'intersecting ' each other so they are continued throughout the house.  As modelling the actual house, I was able to understand the structure of the house but most importantly, the 'architecture' and main idea of the house.
 The materiality was also one of important feature of Barcelona Pavilion. Use of transparent window wall and reflective pool give me a strong characteristic image of the house and they affect my selection of the materials for modelling.

In the studio, The exercise was to make three different models from a given section. I tried to continue the concept 'intersection ' from take home task, so made three different version of models.

For the first one, I tried to show the sections by overlapping the walls. Each of wall does not have the shape of the section but when they are combined, it clearly shows the given section.

For the second model, I verified the sections width for several wall, connect the walls with a horizontal bar and lined them up.

For the last one, I illustrated the section on bird's view of the model - the walls of the model just contain doors but when I see from the sky view, the wall connections gives the outline of the section.

This class tasks requires more creativity of modelling processes! By these modelling, I learned that there were many possible ways to communicate one idea through modelling processes.