As the beginning of the week hit, that was when I started to feel under pressure as the deadlinr was getting closer, and considering how fast time can go, I felt abit panicked. I had my final design reasy to be laser cut and made but due to the amount of triangles shapes I had around the building, I thought it would’ve been easier/appropriate to cut out by hand; this is because if anything went wrong, I would’ve been able to adjust it a little. Also, considering everyone around the uni are trying to get their FMP done, laser cutting was going to take long and I didn’t want to risk losing time making my template for it to potentially go wrong, and also having trouble with putting the model pieces together so I decided not to in the end.

That being said, I started off with cutting out the base and the roof, then I cut the walls which were in the height of 24m (16cm) x 38.5m (18.5cm) which is in the scale of 1:200. I originally did want to make the model in a bigger scale but I figured architectural models are usually not that big, and I wanted to keep it looking professional therefore I kept it at a smaller scale.

Slowly, I cut out each traiangle and using masking tape, I attached each triangle by traiangle out snd onto the walls to make sure that the pieces were the right sizes and pieces together well all the way around. This took me almost two days to do, so once this was sone, wall by wall, I stafted disconnecting the traitnles of face by face to use the already made traiangles as a templare to cut out the boarders for the windows as some popped out more than others. As well as the red acrylic acetate which will represent the red coloured windows.

Whilst trying to cut out the windows, I reckoned the red acrylic acetate appeared too dark and did not give off the see through effect that I initially wanted so to fix this problem, I used s cery thin red see through acetate sheet, using double sided tape, I stuck two sheets of clear acetate on both sides of the red acetate to create a reflective, bright, red see through window. I thought it looked nice however there were too many bubbles and uneven bits within it which made it looks too obvious and unprofessional so I scrapes it. I also had trouble trying to find transparent red acetate both online and in stores so eventually I had to stick with using red polyprene as my windows.

After cutting all window boaders and pieces out, using the second piece of the mount board triangle cut out, to make the boarders all equal, I measured 0.5cm and cut the inside. I then started number them both on sketchup and on the every single piece of my model so that it would’ve been easier to reattach together considering I had a lot of traiangles, it would’ve been long and confusing.

The next day, I used to the day to make sure all the pieces were in line with each other. I slowly started glueing the original traingle pieces to the buiding using super glue I had gotten from hobby craft. This was slightly hardas some bits where a little to big so I had to consistently cut the size down or remake the traingles from scratch. This is was hard but I managed to get it done.

After this, I started to sand down the edges and any rough bits which I thought needed to be smoothened out however, it turned out to be a bad idea as it made the gaps of my model more visiable. It also left a lot of dust within the gaps which made it harder to spray paint because it would’ve made bits of the model bumpy. When spray painting the model the first time, I had encountered difficulties. I had sprayed painted it too close and did not do it in sections so the paint kept dripping and it was uneven. I then had to sand down the model again to make it even and that messed up the colouring and the smoothness of the model even further.

I fixed the problem however but continuing to sanding my model until it smooth and clean enough to go over with a primer, and then spray painted which I did the next day before attaching the windows. I also spray painted the boarders of my windows to make that it was the same colour as the rest of the building.

I started to double side the board pieces and attached the red windows together. Once I had done this, I started attaching all windows to the right parts. And that was my final and finished model.

At first was I really happy with my final model but the more I looked at it, I became disappointed because I did not manage to add in any landscaping which would’ve made my modle look better, bringing it to life. This was because I failed to order my architectural models and trees in time and I did not think I needed it til the modelwas complete by which this time, it was too late. I also thought my model looked better when it wasn’t spray painted as it looked bumpy due to all the dust that had fell ontop of my model wholst soray painting in the prototyping room.

To conclude, in the future I will take this into consideration. Overall, I think I could’ve made a better outcome with a little more time, researching and more experimenting with my sketches and with this in mind, I will take this into a count to use my time more wisely. I will also make sure to have my materials and such ready weeks before hand rather than last minute.