Assignment 3 - Final Poster

Assignment 3 - Model Making

Assignment 3 - Renders - High Quality and Low Quality

Laser Cut Material - Flat

Assignment 3 - Laser Cutting - Completed Laser Cutting Files

MDF 3mm -
MDF 6mm -
Clear Acrylic -

Assignment 3 - Laser Cutting - Images of Laser Cutting Model

Assignment 3 - Final Concept

After much hard work and fantastic help and advice from Jeremy, Danny and others I have fianlly come up with this final design.

Assignment 3 - Laser Cutting - Thoughts and Materials

Having been to the lectures and seen some of the examples of the laser cutting I have decided that I really like MDF and and the finish it produces. I really like the blakc edge that the laser burns in, I also like that its really smooth and soft to look at. In discussion with Jeremy and Danny I will use MDF for the floors/levels of my building. For the trusses on edge of the building I will use a clear acrylic.

My tutor Danny suggested to me that I only model 2 sides of the building as this would highlight the internal construction of the building etc. I really like this idea and therefore am only modeling 2 sides of the building to highlight construction and my theme of prefabrication.

Summery:

MDF 6mm - Levels

MDF 3mm - Services 'Ring' + Other

Clear Acrylic 2mm - Truss System

Assignment 3 - Altered Design Concept

After working through designs and concepts and discussing these with Jeremy and Danny my design idea has changes slightly. After looking through numerous examples for inspiration I have become interested in trying to design a building where each of the INDIVIDUAL levels rotate

After further analysis the idea is to create this building but with a parametric truss system ‘skin on the outside’. I feel that this would create a very interesting and unique building.
Below are a series of sketches and design ideas that I have been working through and come up with..

Assignment 3 - Tasks 9, 10, 11 and 12 - Experiment 3 Design Developement