DEVELOPING DESIGN THROUGH RESEARCH

I wanted to have some sort of structure that either surrounded or was in front and back of the mosque I wanted to find a way to include arches into my design, and hence went with this design. This is a very simple and easy design, however when put together, it has a great outcome and look to it.

Front elevation drawing of the arch

I started by drawing a simple arch, and decided to overlap them, so it creates arches all the way round. I made a simple card model by making slits and overlappin g them and was pleased with the outcome.

I then created this model on SketchUp and gave it shadows to see how it would look realistically and how it sat on a surface

Since this is going to go onto my final design, I made this into a 3D model, and I used black MDF. used 2D design and had the front elevation view of the arch Then I created slits on the top and bottom so that I could insert them to create the final outcome. I made a few of these pieces as the go at the front and back of the mosque, which will be shown later on.

This is what it looks like once it has been completely put together. It creates a beautiful arch, which are on all four sides.