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When making a model, there are many different factors to consider. The materials, the size, the style and most importantly what you are trying to say? What is the models purpose? What are you trying to showcase? Making a model is like visual sketching, it allows areas to be explored.

When making my model I took a lot of inspiration from a book by American architect Thom Mayne – Morphosis both his architecture firm and title of the book, it showcased very detailed and intricate models. It was a style of model making that I have never seen before.

This is a style that I would like to emulate into my own models.

My father actually gave me this book as a birthday present a couple of years back, at the time I was like “oh yeah, this is cool” I would look at the pictures and that was it really, never did I think that it would actually come in handy in inspiring and teaching me today. This is something that i find very interesting and I now love to collect books of similar styles.

I have also been taking inspiration and learning from a Youtube page called 30X40 Design Workshop. I find his videos very informative and they have given me many tips on how to make models.

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I made a quick mock up in Rhino of the surrounding environment of the site. I also highlighted the WW building in red. I am planing to use this for my site map. I will make this using photoshop.

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I did some experimentation with sun angles and its intensity using V-ray. I discovered that in order to get a realistic shadow the suns intensity had to be lowered. I plan to add in further lighting to brighten up the space.

I also found out that rendering light with glass and water takes a very long time, so I need to ensure that I provide myself with ample time to render as I could easily get caught out.

As the space outside of the basement is to be converted into a “pocket forrest” I needed to find some relevant photos of native New Zealand Forrest. After a couple of google searches I came to the conclusion that I was just going to go out and take my own photos.

Lovers Lane in the Auckland Domain was recommended as a good place to go to photograph native bush. I have included a series of photographs below.

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I plan on photoshoping these images into mu final renders 🙂

This is what Im calling “The Canopy” It is the main feature of the bath house. This is another iteration of the previous one I made and 3D printed. I initially thought that this would cover the entirety of the space I decided that was too overpowering and reduced it in size, now it just covers the main pool area.

The original pillars of the basement space will still remain and each “pillar” of “The Canopy” with encase each one. This will help to soften the harsh right angles of the original space.

I intend this structure to be made from Tawa timber as it is a sustainable local timber and has a similar aesthetic to Pine. (I have covered this in my Materiality blog post)

I also plan to 3D print this to scale in order to fit it in my 1:100 model. Due to it being 3D printed I will not resemble a waffle frame, I was going to laser cut a waffle frame, however the scale is so small and would make it difficult to build. The 3D printed canopy will provide an insight into the curvature and form of the waffle.