The First Year Project 1 Review

A detailed look at how 1st year students

By Paulina Konkina

The First Year of Architecture and Civil Engineering School were asked to design a sculpture that would represent the given theme - ‘Kinosythis’. The groups of 5-6 people had 2 weeks to come up with a 1:10 scaled model of their design, However, students were not told that they will have to reproduce the sculptures at 1:1 scale, only using given materials - timber, canvas and strings. How have groups adapted their designs when building the realsized model?

Callum Taylor

Thomas Foster

Agata Nguyen Chuong

Lamia Grine

Diana Smijikovic

The real-sized model is very similar to the 1:10 scaled model. This means that the design was very well thought through, with all calculations carried out before.

The strings and canvas both work in tension better in the real sculpture than in the little model, because the weights of the real materials is different in proportions to substitutes used in the model.

Madeleine Wellham, Phil Humphrey, Tim Scott, Egle Kaleckaité, James Thien

This model is very interesting as you don’t realise that the triangular timber pieces form a base of the model. The string and canvas both work in tension, where the timber frame pulls supports the model in compression.

The red colour adds extra dynamic, as it choosing either red or blue colour was one of the requirement.

Kieran Tate

Ben Giles

Marina Mylonadis

Gordon Siew

Alex Fernandez

The sculpture seems to levitate takes at least two or three people to lift it up).

The A-frames add extra stability to the structure, as the wood works better in compression. The joints should be very strong to hold the structure up, yet elegant not to subtract from the beauty of the design.