Week 7/8 ideas

With Week 7/8 activities, I really struggled at first to discover ideas that were my kind of style and would perfectly create that combination of light and shadow effect within a room. These are some drawings I made prior to making my models which guided my reasons for making them, although many of these ideas were never brought to like, they were a good foundation which eventually led me to each model I created.

Week 6 Ideal home activity

Making my ideal home, I wanted to create a spaceship/galaxy themed home with small amounts of light piercing through the blinds of my room at a 1:20 scale.

To create the spaceship theme, I spray painted the outside of my model a metallic silver and added little fins to the side to mimic the figure of a spaceship but left the box shape to keep the idea that this is a persons room.

With my first attempt at adding a light source, my gaps made through the paper were not large enough to create much of an effect, it was difficult to see the environment created in the room and overall lacked much lighting effect.

Moreover, my model was not perfect, there are two gaps along the side of the back wall due to the natural shape of the cardboard and the lack of flaps to secure each piece together.

After making some final adjustments, I was able to make the light peek through the window much better through cutting bigger gaps to allow its entry. This created a much clearer mood of fascination and wonder within the room.

Week 5: Work room made from paper and cardboard

Fusion 360 activity

Paper modelling techniques

For our first activity, working with the folding techniques book was very interesting as it allowed me to see paper from a different perspective in terms of its folding capabilities. Paper may not be the best in terms of this structural integrity, however, its ability to show shapes, figures and patterns far exceeds that of cardboard.

Model of bedroom: Paper and Cardboard

The Week 5 activities called students to build separate scaled models from paper and cardboard on a scale of 1:10. The following images are the model of my bedroom at a scale of 1:10. Through the use of paper and cardboard, it is clear that paper is much harder to work with when aiming for structural integrity and overall neat and tidiness of models due to its thickness, for instance, a four face room. On the other hand, paper is much easier to make folds, creases and intricate cuts due to it being so thin. Cardboards structural integrity does not allow it to be folded into interesting models like the V Pleat present in the following images, however, the stiffness of cardboard allows one to easily make a strong foundation for most models. From this activity I found cardboard was much easier to work with in terms of making the room, however I enjoyed experimenting with folds in paper and creating fascinating origami-like models.

With the cardboard model, a combination of paper modelling and cardboard was used to create a warm room but also mimicked the common teenage bedroom with messy bedsheets and a huge bed head. Moreover, paddle pop sticks were used to mimic the timber floor at my current living space. The blinds in the window covered by the tracing paper provide an interpretation of what my room looks and feels like in terms of how light enters it.

Vectorgraphic

Vectorgraphic

Photoshop

Photoshop

Infographics

Composite image

Composite Image