Week 5 - model making

This week we watched videos of architectural model making, learning their use and importance in the design industry. this videos were actually very interesting and i was engaged the whole. the video gave great detail to proper materials and the effect each can have on different models.

Our task for this week was to recreate a 1:10 scale model of the room where you spend the most time completing your uni studies. Instead of choosing my room i chose my lounge room. I didn't chose my room not only because i don't study in there but because it is too small and boring(only having my bed and bed side table in there. My lounge room is very big so instead of using 1;10 scale i decided to use 1:30 scale to allow it to fit on a A4 piece of paper.

First i took measurements of my lounge room, recording the heights, widths and lengths of the furniture, doors and actual room.




Once all the measurements were recorded i then used a scale ruler to map out the lengths and draw a floor plan on a piece of paper. I wanted to do this as well so had guide for when i was attaching the model piece to the paper.



Once this was done i used a empty Nurti-grain cereal box to use as cardboard walls. I used sticky tape and super glue to make the furniture and attached the walls. I also used scissors and a Stanley knife to carve out the windows. sticking the furniture together was really difficult and time consuming. In the end the model was to scale but did look a bit funny. Admittedly i know i could do a whole lot better if i was using proper materials and not cereal box cardboard. Overall though i thought i captured the room and its main features,