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Concept Model ::

Working with the concepts found in your operative models and in the operations of your shirt, start to deconstruct the building and conceptualize again through surface and structure. You are to trace the indexical condition of your idea through the building. You have spent the last week gathering information from the site that is relevant to the ideas (index) in the shirt project. Now you need to physically handle these concepts and build a concept model for Friday. We will have a short presentation on Friday to introduce the new building program, but for now just build. I talked to each of you today about what materials would best display your concepts. Here is a short list : Cardboard (for a base as used above), bass wood sticks (small and no dowels), piano wire of varying diameters (found at Varsity but much cheaper at a hardware store like ACE or my favorite Childress Hardware True Value at 915 Buddy Holly), one-ply museum board, aluminum wire (this will remain straight but is flexible, or floral wire as Jesus used), string, elastic string, ect., ect. You should have fun with this. It will be a nice temporary escape from your drawings. Lets get back to our concepts. Look to your operative models and your operative diagrams for assistance. Here is where the magic lies.

The models are to be built at 1/16" = 1'-0" scale and are due at the beginning of class on Friday. If you choose to model individual parts of the building to experiment with form then you may want to move to a 1/8" = 1'-0" scale. These models should be treated as exploratory objects and will work to transform formal conditions of the building into conceptual ideas of your own.

Your final exploded isometrics are due at the end of class on Friday. They should be pinned up and ready to rock your wall for the entire week and a half long break.

When you get back from break you only have one month of class remaining.