Site Model

It's taken a few days but the site model is looking quite good. The model is necessary to show each of the proposals from everyone designing masterplans on Murano. Buildings are not glued down to the base so they can be easily taken off and then replaced with other student's individual schemes.

The model shows an area of Murano on the right; and across the canal, most of the island of Serenella, at a scale of 1:250, which works out as size 2A0.

All the wooden elements were laser cut, a process that involved using the AutoCAD file of the area to create layers and layers of the same building footprint that were then glued together. The black edges on buildings were burns from the laser cutter, and we decided on a white acrylic base to contrast with this.

Everyone in the studio thinks this contrast looks quite good, and certainly lets it photograph quite well:

Our current thoughts are to varnish the base to create a more even colour, due to the different colours of wood being used. We don't want the base to distract from the masterplans on top of it.