Physical models are the springboard to architecture.
The book emphasizes on the importance of making physical models for architectural design. It highlights its potential being the springboard to architecture as physical models are more prone to chance and productive errors. They retain its power to manifest and suggest relations, scales and forms of organisation that digital models often do only with difficulty.
Here are some other interesting points from the book:
Fulcrum
I came across this word in the book which I thought it might help later in the design stage. As the term is associated to pivots, I can relate it to my topic because joints such as hinges are a common part in the design solution for compact living spaces. Here is how the book define fulcrum:
The fulcrum is a point on which a lever
rests or is supported and on which it pivots; a fulcrum may play an essential
role in an activity or event. Thus, the fulcrum is the point around which a
movement takes place, something happens. In architectural terms, one can say
that the space of a certain movement is formed around it. If one were to
describe it, it consists of a point and a line, and the mere outline of these
forms the backbone for the pivotal movement.
With the 'modularity' concept in mind, I tried to play around with triangles using cork materials. These triangles define the units and constraints for the folding technique, hence creating spatial qualities. With the natural form of the cut-out triangles, I've formed horizontal, vertical and slanted elements interestingly creating planes, connectors and boundaries.
‘Make it what it wants to be.’ – Louis Khan
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