First Model

For our first model-making task, we had to read 4 pieces of text written by various philosophers, and look at the works of various architects. We then had to select one of the ideas from one of the texts, and one of the works of an architect, and base our model on those concepts. The one constraint we had with the model was that it could only be made out of white mountboard, meaning we had to manipulate and push the material as far as we could, which was quite challenging. I selected the text by Gilles Deleuze which looked at the idea of folds and the fact that they are formed from a continuous line which in turn creates spaces. I also looked at the Jewish Museum (Berlin) by Daniel Libeskind, which I though complimented this idea of folds. I decided to make a model which created a fold shape which in turn contained different types of folds within it. I also tried to create something which resembled the void spaces created between the folds within Libeskind's work.

We had 2 hours to construct our model: