making models

Sometimes i feel like Colonel Aureliano Buendía (one hundreds years of solitude). Tinkering away in my study, glueing tiny shreds of card together, scoring plastic in impossibly straight and repetitive lines... In the same way he trades his tiny gold fish for gold coins, from which he makes more goldfish from - i cut and glue cardboard, to give to tutors who in turn expect more from me, sending me back to my study to once again build a model that outdates the last.... It is a neverending cycle.. But the the cycle is therapudic.... If only someone would give me gold coins for these things. perhaps one day?

Below are some photos of my final model presentation. In the end the basic form of the Architecture studio ended up being a simple series of rectalinear boxes that are floating and suspended within eachother... by doing this i was able to create one single open space, separated by mezzanines levels. Philisophically, i decided internally the ideal studio should have no doors and no closed spaces to encourage a communal approach to design, creativity and critique.

The apparent simplicity came out of long and hard work at technical details in its construction, which enables the building to appear almost as one solid form, as well as a community of floating spaces.... details to come!