Concept Development Models

Assignment

Build upon the collages done in the previous assignment to create three small models (roughly 3 inches square) for each collage.

Site

Edge

Program

Site

This model draws on the the puzzle aspect of the collage. Two pieces, evoking the surroundings of the site, can be arranged in various ways.

This one focuses on the missing piece and how there is room for something new.

Growth is represented with this model. Not only does it rise upward, it twists, turns, and reaches; it allows for much opportunity and potential.

Edge

These cubes have many edges, but they also show the "blurry edge" the one that can be passed without a clear awareness of the crossing.

Like the woman in the collage, the triangle in this model is being constrained. It is an edge without borders.

Edge as contrast is the subject here. The stark, insular, and well-defined white volume plays off the black bands which flow, reach, and invite.

Program

The first model is based on the collaboration we see in the collage, all the hands holding each other. The second model is based on the first one and I feel it's far more compelling.

Drawing (quite literally) from images used in the collage, this model evokes what people might actually do in a Makerspace.

Taking the idea one step further, this collage is an actual project, something that one might build (out of a more difficult to work material, like metal or wood) in a Makerspace.
This is a Besamim Box. Inspired by fragrant, leftover Hadass leaves from the recent holiday of Sukkot, I created a simple—but still decorative—box to contain them for future use as Besamim.