....assemble his architecture project for school? :mrgreen:

 

 

The pieces are all lasercut wood, and they are really hard to pick up.  I can't imagine gluing them together.  The siting for this project is a housing development in Toledo.

 

I'll tell you what.  I'll do the bad part of the project which is to make a model of Toledo, and one of you can volunteer for the good part, which is the building itself.

 

I'll document my progress in pictures

I know I'm gonna sound ancient, but you really use lasers to cut your wood?  I graduated from architecture school 18 years ago, and obviously this was unheard of.  We went through hundreds of exacto blades.

Ewww...Toledo.

I know I'm gonna sound ancient, but you really use lasers to cut your wood?  I graduated from architecture school 18 years ago, and obviously this was unheard of.  We went through hundreds of exacto blades.

 

That's how we do.  The lazy cutters do the work for us, then we assemble. 

 

But a lot of people still cut their models out by hand.  It looks way more impressive when you can make precision cuts.  Parts of this model have thicknesses that are 1/128 of an inch.  It's practically carbon.

It looks like alot of fun....kind of.  I bet it will look cool when your done atleast.

When you need help striking the model, I do an AWESOME Godzilla.

^can I be mothra and we can fight to the death?

Sure. But be warned: Rodan has my back, and I AIN'T talking about the scultor, yo.

How about you alls destroy Toledo.

How about you alls destroy Toledo.

 

The way you hear Michiganders speak about that city, we all ready have. :-D

I have made progress:

 

 

 

Assembling this thing was hell.  The pieces were almost too small to pick up.  Since the scale is 1' = 1/32," the height of the buildings were just barely over 2 inches.

 

As for the architecture of this thing, don't hate.  I'm not calling this my best work so far since there are other directions I would have liked to have taken.  But it seems to make my studio professor happy, and I haven't received too much criticism, other than a few minor modifications.  I'll post a few computer renderings later (which I'm not very good at)

 

 

 

You could drop that into an Ann Arbor or Chicago montage and no one would know the difference. :-)