3rd workshop - model it - norman fisher house

Building: Norman Fisher House

Architect: Louis Kahn

Scale: 1:50

The purpose of this exercise was to model the Norman Fisher House focusing on the exterior facades, as well as challenging us to build a model that could open up so you could explore the internal spaces.

I chose to use 2 different materials in the model, balsa for wood, and a boxboard cardboard material to express the stoney brick material.

Below is a sequence if images showing the process of the model opening up to expose the interiors. I used walls that extended between floors as an anchor for the floors.

3rd workshop - model it - norman fisher house site model

Building: Norman Fisher House

Architect: Louis Kahn

Scale: 1:200

The purpose of this exercise was to build a site model of the Norman Fisher House focusing on the surrounding landscape.

I wanted to use a minimal amount of materials, just using cardboard for the landscape. ANd instead of using contours, I used section cuts for the internal structure, and layered carboard over the section to get the approximate form of the landscape.

3rd workshop - model it - church of light

Building: Church of Light
Architect: Tadao Ando

Scale: 1:100

3rd workshop - model it - detailed corner

Building: Norman Fisher House
Architect: Louis Kahn
Scale: 1:50

The purpose of this exercise was to focus on a particular corner section of the Fisher House. The challenge was to understand the corner based on plans and sections and photos available to us, and to then model the corner.

3rd workshop - model it - process modelling

The purpose of this exercise was to use modelling as part of a design process. We used a set section that had to be incoporated into the model somewhere, as well as using a predetermined set. I used the concept of solid and void.

1st process model

2nd process model

final model - 1st view

final model - alternate view

3rd workshop - model it - intersecting houses

The purpose of this exercise was to build 3 similar houses, and find interesting ways of cutting out voids, and finding various methods of combing the 3 houses together.