FABRICATION 1 CENOTAPH TO NEWTON All documentation can be viewed via the following film: FABRICATION 2 CASA OCHEQUEBRADOS All documentation can be viewed via the following film: FABRICATION 3 CASTELVECCHIO MUSEUM - HANDRAIL DETAIL All documentation can be viewed via the following film: FINAL REFLECTIONS All three fabrications demonstrate processes with various components and types of techniques pertaining to traditional and contemporary methods. As I am in the first year of the Masters course, I took the opportunity for this subject to inspire the creation of models that deviate from the typical 'cookie cutter' style, hence these three model s are quite unique to the usual production of architectural models. With that being said, they are probably not the style of model that would be replicated for studio use, yet the variation of techniques explored in eac...
3. CASTELVECCHIO MUSEUM CARLO SCARPA THRESHOLD KEY CONCEPT In 1958, Carlo Scarpa was confronted with the restoration of the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy. This was a 14 th century fortress in the west of the city. The complex had overgone series of remediations over the years. In 1957, Scarpa was appointed as the new architect for the museum, with the position to reinvent various spaces. Scarpa’s practice is reminiscent of ‘Kintsugi’, an ancient Japanese technique of repairing pottery with a gold glue that becomes part of its new identity (Murphy 1990 ) . Scarpa’s interventions at the Castelvecchio are based on relations that Scarpa himself invents for the layers he selects (Murphy 1990 ) . He states, “to allow it (the old fragment) to maintain its own identity, its own history…, you increase the tension between the new and the old” (Murphy 1990 ) . Manipulating layers of different scales and properties, he critically selects ...
CASA OCHEQUEBRADOS 1:500 TOPOGRAPHIC MODEL- ELEMENTAL This model celebrates the role architecture plays as an object in landscape. Rigid geometries are contrasted with the rough and jaggered topography and texture and shadow is explored. The communication method of 'floating' the topography is intended to focus specifically onto the nature of the landscape 'holding' the architecture, as it barely touches the earth. PRECEDENT IMAGE PRECEDENT IMAGE PRECEDENT IMAGE ORIGINAL SKETCH Scale 1:500 Materials - Stainless steel mesh - Tallowood Timber - Blue Modelling Foam - Stainless Steel rods Techniques - CNC cutting (blue foam toposurface) - Hand forming mesh - 3D printing - Timber laminating
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