house 2: kate moss - model views

house 2 - kate moss

The idea behind this model began with research into Kate Moss's lifestyle. She has recently begun to live her life much more environmentally friendly and sustainably.

"Kate is really serious about country living. She's having a vegetable patch designed and converting one of the posh barns into a hen house," Metro News

With this in mind I decided Kate's ideal house would be a representation of her high powered city life juxtaposed with her new environmental outlook. I created a dynamic interactive box with the object suspended in the middle subverting ideas of what an acrylic case is, or should be. The box has no clear distinction between up and down, and the shiny city can be placed above, or below. The idea being to mimic the struggle facing Kate, what's more important to her, her values or her job?

house 2: kate moss - assembling acrylic case

the two parts of the case separated awaiting final join

house 2: kate moss - finishing off the cast piece

Brass cast completed

 cutting off spruing

attaching city to trees with embedded supports

house 2: kate moss - creating the trees

I began by printing the whole forest as a single element, but there was too many strings that remained between the trees.

3D printed the trees separetly with a much cleared result.

As a backup I also lasercut some 2D trees out of black paper

 Spray painting the 3D printed trees black

The uneven surface on the base looks fantastic once sprayed.

house 2: kate moss - carving wax for cast piece

 drilling out piece

 trying cutting away material but proved to be far too difficult.

 used candle to melt base of each building and then attached it on

house 2: kate moss - new design for kate moss house

For a number of reasons I was becoming increasingly frustrated with my first design idea. I have decided to start from scratch and redesign this project. I have made the house much more conceptual in nature and it has a much stronger connection to Kate Moss as I have done more research into her lifestyle before the redesign. I will explain the concept in more details with my final post showing the completed model.

house 2: kate moss - straightening brass wire to place in angled joints

not as easy as it looks...

house 2: kate moss - repeated form

Laser cutting the repeating form out of 1.5 acrylic sheet.

 attempting to cut out form from blue wax for casting

 cutting out form from copper sheet

 3D printed form and copper form

Same form in many different materials.

house 2: kate moss - create workshop

Learning how to code an arduino to make LED's turn on and off, dim and flash.

house 2: kate moss - 3D printing the stand joint

 problems start piling up

 not printing raft properly

 more issues...

 fire alarm goes off print stopped

 many many hours later print finished

house 2: kate moss - sketchup

Applying knowledge from both these architectural ideas I created a "folded plate" style case which used a repeating form. This same form was then repeated multiple times to create the building framework. I then had the idea to remove the floor plate and have the building hung from fishing wire, perched on a tall stand and have objects below and above the invisible "ground plane" to give an impression of where it is.

looking at deconstructivism  with the work of Gordon Matta-Clark.

Looking at pushing what I learnt about modelling folded plate buildings from the first assignment, and pushing it further in this design.