FMP- week 2 (1)

Creative week

The task was to draw different designs of what you are making (pod house) on A1 sheet of paper. Also, we had to use at least three mediums. I used a pen, highlighters and brush pens. I think I should have used more variety of medium on the A1 sheet. I think it looked quite dull as a page with the colours mostly black, grey and brown.

A1 sheet of quick drawings of my pod house

The next task was to pick a design I drew and using the materials provided to make that design. I chose the cubic design. The reason is because I am designing a pod house which the form is inspired by origami. The cubic design reminds me of an origami that I folded which consists of many cubes just like that drawing.

Cardboard model

Figure added to show scale

I thought what worked well was that I used cardboard to create this model.  I chose to use cardboard because it is easy to manipulate for me to create the cubic forms. I have used cardboard many times before for the previous projects during the pathway stage, so I expected it to work out fine. Although, I think I should have experimented with other materials such as polypropylene. 

On the other hand, I realised with the cardboard, because it is easy to manipulate it is hard to stay in one form.  It is easy to lose its shape. It bends and crushes very easily. I was not impressed with my model. I made it very roughly due to the time that I had, and this shows through my model. It looks very messy, with glue visible everywhere on the model. It also cannot balance on its own, so I struggled to take photographs of it. I decided to use blue tack to stick the model on the table.  


The outcome of my model differs with my drawing as expected since I did not look at my drawing to make the model, I took the idea from the drawing but not copying it exactly.