Discover Top Posts Tagged with #massing model

DEVELOPING A SCHEME WITH A PHYSICAL MODEL

laying out blocks and streets on top of a printed site map. adding notations (lines for streets, marking hierarchies with color).

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#urban design #strategy #physical model #massing model #map #notations #blue foam #streets #blocks

MAPPING SPATIAL CONNECTIONS

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#urban mapping #massing model #analysis #urban #figure-ground

samples of MASSING MODELS

the students are asked to build massing models of their building inset into the site to control scale, proportion, expression, context relationships and more.

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#massing model #context #site #shape #proportion

The realisation came about a week or so a go at the mid semester crits in our Colliding Spaces studio. One of the students was presenting and the guest critics and myself were holding up a whi…

blue foam - one of the many materials one can use to build a physical model. the modeling is essential - not the material.

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#architecture model #massing model #blue foam #physical model #design studio