Grand Budapest Hotel | Digital & Practical Project
This is a personal project that I am working on with a friend to recreate a scale impression of what is already a scale model. Originally the Grand Budapest Hotel is made to a scale of 1:250 in relation to a real life sized hotel, however this model is a completely fictional design used in the film to create the impression of a full scale hotel. In order to save the great expense of building an entire building or working with a pre existing building and to add to the quirky and aesthetically pleasing direction of Wes Anderson, this model is an ideal solution to express the artistic design of a fictional place. For my model, I’ve used the scale of the model to create my own scale for an even smaller version. As it is a personal and not professional project, I have given myself a small margin for error, and plan to create something that is more aesthetically pleasing to me and my partner personally than just an absolute perfect recreation of the original model. We decided that as a basis for the scale of our model, we would use the width of an A3 piece of paper as the width, which is 42cm.
You can see I have found the original architectural design sheet with the scale of the model used in the film, and I’ve used that to create a ratio that applies to the size I established before.
After working out the measurements, I used Google Sketchup to put those measurements together so as to check that they appear correct. The digital model helps to give an impression of my measurements and shows that they will create a relatively accurate impression of the Grand Budapest Hotel. This us also a good example of my ability to adapt to 3D model software, as this was my first example of Sketchup.
The reference images of the original model will aid me in designing and colouring my own model. It includes some close up finer detail which I will use as a basis on my own design, however due to the size difference I will not be able to include as fine a detail in my model.
There are also some images to show the progress I have made so far with my model. I used a cricut machine software to score or cut out a lot of the design in order to maintain a good level of accuracy in the scale, so it looks as correct as possible.