Church Of Light by Tadao Ando
This take home assignment was a great practice for my model making skills and getting to know the characteristics of balsa wood. I chose a rather thick balsa wood for the walls to represent its thickness on plan. But when joining the walls end to end, I realized the ugly joints it created as you could see the cut grains on the ends of the wood that couldn't be covered. A way to improve the exterior look of the model is to maybe use thinner pieces of balsa to go over the whole wall again to cover the corner joints.
Also I realized the importance of understanding the spatial circulation of the building in order to make the model make sense. So here are some images of the Church of Light captured:
Trying to play with the light, shadow and shape of the cross hitting on the wall at different times of the day.
Week 2 Class Exercises
The task for studio this week was to create quick sketch models. We had to make quick draft models of different variations of a double slanted roof house. Draft models are great steps in helping to visualize your design. While they do not look fantastic in craftsmanship, the idea is to help you understand the massing of your designs three dimensionally.
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