Posts tagged “model making”

November 28th, 2011

finally able to sit down tonight and crank out a model… not quite “betchin” yet but it’s getting there… still a work in progress…

October 30th, 2011

sketches of design for contemporary art museum… investigating the “wall” as plane, surface, division, light reflector… also looking at the building’s relationship to the central corridor that pierces the entire building in sectional models… 

October 11th, 2011

good friends are hard to come by… i like mine sharp, strong, balanced and slightly toxic… my desk at the moment while model-making… #toolsoflife

February 25th, 2011

yesterday was officially “bad left index finger day.” i would like to say that it went on sweet drinking binge, made a few mistakes and that it can’t remember a thing. but today, unfortunately, is a sobering reminder, that crap went down for my left index finger… all along the lines of being an architecture student, of course. the events as follows:

8am - left index finger turned off alarm after sub-four hours of sleep. (ok, that’s just metaphorically painful)

9am - someone handed me chipboard and i got a chipboard-cut. think paper cut, but wider, and deeper, and stingier.

10am - fresh olfa knife slipped and sliced off a chunk of flesh on the tip of my finger. i saw the skin and flab on the cutting mat before i realized what i did. it was a glorious scene as i promptly reworked my final model from being made out of white chipboard to black chipboard. 

11am - finished typing, ahem, t-y-p-i-n-g a paper with a bandaged finger. not easy.

2pm - slammed my… yes, still talking about left index finger… in the laser cutter mammoth-of-a-door. 

today i worked all day in the shop, fabricating other parts of my model using the band saw, rotary sander, and other power tools and everything went just fine… as i knock on wood… and get a splinter ;/

so lesson learned - have good model making experiences as you prepare for pre-spring break finals. and don’t forget to SAVE as marchstudent says… :)

May 7th, 2010

 

link to wall street journal article: richard meier model museum reopens today…

i used to spend my fridays giving tours at the richard meier model museum in long island city… if you haven’t been yet, then go! it’s a must see for all architects :)

-image above by scott frances, the getty center model

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@daisyames

master of architecture candidate at yale. athlete. builder. painter. habitually punctilious. occasionally insouciant.