Asa Rodriguez Polyhedra

Concepts
I have always been interested in miniatures and found the house model to be pretty charming. As I have already focused one project on my cat, I decided to try and size this for him as a sort of bed area for him.
Techniques
I worked mainly in Illustrator on this piece, resizing and reformatting the pieces to fit on the cardboard. I also added in a door and a window in, as they were only engraved in the original.

Materials
The house was produced in e-flute cardboard, but ideally I would make the house slightly larger, produce it in a more durable material (either a thicker cardboard or wood that slotted together), and paint it to look like a traditional cottage.

Twinkle Shah Week 11 FlatFab Laser Cutting

Concept

I knew I wanted to create a modern architectonic structure. I wanted to use different shapes and make something that could be used as a building. However, I think that although it is building-esque, it wouldn't quite be practical as an actual building. I could see it more as an installation piece of artwork on display in a modern hotel, office building, or museum.

Ghosted Image Painted Black in Rhino

Layer Assignments in Rhino

Techniques

I started by laying horizontal and vertical structures from the bottom and working my way up thinking about how to make the structure taller. I used squares, circles, and some more organic shapes too. One mistake I made that I realized after assembling it was that I made the slots too close to the edges for some of the organic shapes. This caused it to be a bit fragile and it actually did break in my car, but I was able to improvise and use some tape to fix it. In the future, I will make sure to leave more than enough room for the slots to fit together sturdily.

Materials

In Keyshot, I assigned a translucent yellow glass to the horizontal components, and a solid blue glass to the vertical organic components. I made the vertical circles a clear glass. I placed the piece in an office building hanging from the ceiling with invisible fishing line. I think the way the light from the window passing through the clear circles, and through the yellow glass, but not through the blue glass, gives a cool effect and shows strong contrast in materials that work together well.

Hanging Installation Piece in Keyshot

Zoomed View of Piece in Keyshot

Here are some photos of the piece assembled out of the E-Flute Cardboard:

Asa Rodriguez Project 1 Castle

Concept

My inspiration for this project was an article on an abandoned housing project in Turkey referred to as a "nightmarish blight on a beautiful landscape". I wanted to simplify the design of the house for expediency, while also communicating the core elements that created the reaction in the article

Techniques

To create the main mass of the building I combined squares and cylinders in order to simulate the silhouette. For the arches, I first combined a cylinder on its side and a cube and then subtracted the resulting solid from a larger transformed cube. Lastly, I used truncated 4-sided pyramids for both the larger and smaller roofs.

Materials

I used a drywall material for the main walls of the chateau in order to simulate the matte texture of the inspiration as many of the rock materials had much more specularity than what I wanted for this piece. A very basic glass was utilized for the windows, while the roofs have a fine-grained wood. The grass is a matte green paint in order to not reflect too much light from or onto the castle.