Thursday, January 28, 2010

consider:process:design::project1:makeshift shelter::process photos:batch1

Here is a little taste of our process for this project. I apologize for the quality- they were taken with my phone...

makeshiftshelter:unloading our finds
on the first day, Carlos and I went out dumpster diving and in search of supplies. We got turned down a couple of places, but perservered, finding the find of the century- the tiki hut- in a dumpster. It was a pretty nice piece!

makeshiftshelter:carlos and the tiki hut
We came back to the studio building and unloaded our finds and covered them with plastic in hopes nothing would happen to them.

Also while we were out, Carlos began to form the wonderful idea that we could use palettes to build the structure- this would prove to be a genius idea.

makeshiftshelter:carlos and haley planning things out
We soon all sat down as a group, trying to figure out how this thing was going to go together. Each of us had different ideas, but they ended up merging together to form what will be the final product.

makeshiftshelter:piece to the model and the scale figure george
To help troubleshoot problems we might have with the full scale structure and to help us visualize what we were going for, we built little miniature palettes from balsawood.

makeshiftshelter:model
In the end, the model ended up looking like this- with Veronica peeping out behind!

1 comment:

suzanne cabrera said...

Ha...Veronica's head makes a nice addition :)