Architecture Model Making Tutorial (Using a Real Project)

[Music] study malls are kind of like Oh three-dimensional sketches kind of snapshots in the design process meant to be quick to build not too precious really just open-ended and I think that's the thing that makes them so useful for me making something tangible something you can hold in your hands it just helps me access different ideas ideas I can't get anywhere else so I've been working on the site plan and we have a little more contour information we wanted to know more about where this granite whalesback was and the exact topographic features right around where we're going to site the house and that's important just because we need to set the floor levels and make sure trying to keep this building close to grade on the uphill side we need to know exactly what those elevations are immediately surrounding the building so we have this new information I've come and updated the contour model and then what we're gonna do is I just roughly cut out one contour so we're just gonna sort of align that one contour use that as a known reference point and once we get that aligned because this is cork I can just take these little pushpins and I'm going to push those in at the corners of these buildings really you don't need to do all the corners because as you're building the model things will self register okay so we've registered this line we know how far the garage the barn piece is off of that and before I did this I sort of pre-cut these so I can just remove the sheet of paper and then what we're left with are the pushpins so these pushpins then tell us that we have the right registration between what we've drawn on the site plan and the actual contours on the model and then we can start laying out the main volume of our house we know that orientation is correct and then also the barn so for this model I'm using 16 inch basswood sheets and I start by cutting out the floor plates so I'm working with a floor plan here you don't need one just makes things a little bit faster once I have those floor plates then I can use those as basis to begin building walls and gluing walls on top of I have some basic elevations and you can see that here but I really am treating this like it's sort of an experiment so I'm going to test out some of my ideas and then see how they look now I had this idea that I wanted to use a lot of glass at the west facing wall of the living room and so here I'm just laying out what that might look like and cutting that out and as I stand it up and I start to look at it I'm not so sure but I'll glue it in place have a look at it and that's what this is for us to study models so it's meant to study relationships so here I'm gluing up the gable ends of that shed roof form and then I'm just adding little structural members in here just to give an idea of how that might be supported and also delineate space in that main living volume messy and perfect doesn't have to be perfect and I'll repeat this for each one of the other volumes that we're working with so this is the master volume and I also do it for the barn volume that you see here that's the gable end of the barn wall from there I'll start adding in the roofs and I'll start with the flat roofs and you can see here I'm gluing them inside of the exterior walls so the exterior wall comes up proud of these flat roofs and that's actually how you would build it in real life just looks a little cleaner that way here I'm laying out some score lines this is meant to be a metal roof and what I'm realizing is the scores are just way too subtle so I think I'm going to add some ribs here and this is just fine balsa wood material just cut these into little strips and then I'll glue them in place using some Elmer's a white glue PVA I like the white glue for these areas because it's just more forgiving than using hot glue the finished product will be a little bit cleaner and we don't have all these glue strings to contend with one tip for you when you're making your roof forms if you add a cleat on the low side of the roof you can just rest it on the walls and I'm gonna slip off now the transitions between the building and the site are really important so I wanted to find some way of modeling what this foundation might look like and I know it's going to be a pure foundation and I also know that these decks are going to act as these transition elements between the site and the building and I started off by making these solid decks and as I got looking at it it just didn't feel appropriate and so here I've just kind of abstracted this idea of deck planks almost like boardwalk planks and I feel like it's just although it's not accurate it just feels more like a deck to me [Music] [Music] now I'm going to start layering on some details here to anything you can do to add shadow and depth to these small models even though this isn't accurate to scale I feel like it really enhances the feel and the suggestion that this is actually a barn door that's riding on a track in real life this track would be absolutely huge but it's got the right sort of sketchy feel to it and I think you can take those artistic liberties as you're constructing your models to suggest design ideas this is the barn and workshop space so that barn door would open the workshop space to a sunny southern courtyard and I'm gonna come in and add another couple of sliding barn doors at various points this is kind of part of the design language of this project subtle details that suggest how a space might be used they say a lot about the character of your space and was taking a small dowel cutting it off at the angle of the roof which is a 5 and 12 pitch and then I'm just going to use some white glue to glue it in between the metal roof ribs here and added a little kerf to show the metal cap detail [Music] now we have to fit the building to the site and for the master wing that's sitting the highest above grade so here I'm just adding some posts and then when we get it in the site and we'll look and see what we're gonna how we're gonna address that I'm using tee pins to mark out where I want to cut the site model to fit the building to it so I just overlay the building here and then I mark each end and then I can just cut that one contour out so this level is the one I want to remove and I want to bring it down to this level here so everything will sit flat [Music] [Music] so you can see I cut everything down to this level and now it just slips right in there that's fitting better and these posts rest properly now there's one more element here this is the screen porch and the screen porch is designed to be a little bit remote from the house sits to the southwest of the main living volume at least tentatively and it's going to use similar design elements a similar design language in other words we'll have metal roof and some shingles and some exposed wood framing but the character of it is gonna feel much more open and exposed to screen porch obviously has a different feel to the interior space it's also going to have a pretty different aspect on the site so we're really viewing it as another destination in here you can see this is just a sketch so it's not perfect it's just meant to show the size in relation to the other elements in the composition and then also that it is much more open than the other elements so it's literally just a little sort of timber frame piece with a roof element on the top of it and here I'm building up the gable on walls and I'm cutting this wall so that the roof will sit on it flat this'll be our metal roof and we're gonna build up this metal roof in the same way that we've built the other roof elements [Music] we're just gonna start adding all the pieces I've got the main living wing got the master wing that sits over here we've got the barn and I had to do a little bit of contour repair here so it's hardly noticeable and all I did was just replace the cork and push some happens into it and I can see my how it's meant to line up here then we have our screen porch and right now the screen porch is sitting over on this end and we can start adding in our roofs we have our roof cleat here these buildings will have other openings in the walls but I think what's important about building a study model like this a little sketchy model is to really show what areas are open versus what areas are more solid so really that contrast between open and solid is what I'm trying to depict and then I've just got a little couple little ramps here that go with the barn piece so that's where you access it now there are some site features that I'm not showing so there's a turnabout here potentially there's a parking court here you'll notice if you look back at the site plan those features aren't modeled as we look down at this face here it seems like you know obviously we're gonna have some posts supporting this deck but I feel like we want to do some fill so we want to move some boulders probably that we're gonna pull out of the excavation for the site probably down here or this needs to be buffered a little bit with some vegetation so all I've done here is cut out a strip of the quarter mat kind of fits with the monochromatic look and I'm just going to kind of plant that so I've done what this is put a little pin on the underside of it and then I can press it right into the cork you know this is the first wall that I cut this is the first one that I glued to the base and you can see that I've I made that large cut here and with this study model I've just put on another layer on the outside because I didn't like the way it looked to me this was just a much clearer expression of the opening and the connection between the front and the back of this building so you know I love this idea that there's a connection between the forest side and the water side in here and this just felt like too much glass extending to the roof so filling this in you know I didn't rebuild another model I didn't have to rebuild this entire facade I just basically overlaid another piece on top of it and that's the real value of the study model it just allows you to quickly iterate and see what's working and what's not you know by the same token we can look at twisting this volume around and maybe we want to look at you know roof form that slopes in this direction so it's it's a great reason to not glue these down you know if we wanted to fit more with the topography on this end of the building we could you know have a series of steps that come down to a lower master bedroom wing that sits at this end and this model allows us to quickly study those relationships [Music] you

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Length: 12min 9sec (729 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 24 2019