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Spatial Design Seminar: Puzzle Turns into Model
In January 2010, 3rd year students in spatial design redefined the belvedere using sets of Tangram . Tale of a quite outstanding workshop not devoid of poetry…
Have you ever been asked if one could fly to China with a concrete block and a lump of paraffin? To wander across a square in Moscow by -15° just by using icing sugar, or to be lulled by the ebb and flow on a quiet beach with a mere cardboard sheet? If this happens to you, then you may answer yes. Because our 3rd-year students in spatial design have just shown it was possible to do so.
This modeling class was centered upon a specific topic: the belvedere.
In a traditional project, you draw from context analysis to think up a final space that takes into account technical requirements. This time our students worked the other way round, applying the overhanging technique to an isolated belvedere. The assignment was no easy task… a true challenge: making a cardboard model out of Tangram pieces that would provide maximum range, all this without using any glue.
Once they had analyzed the ins and outs of the topic and designed the required model, students were asked to make up the environment in which their belvedere should be set. After much experimentation and a pre-modeling session, they produced an eclectic series of landscapes that mirror their sensitivity.
To do so students resorted to: cardboard, glue, cellular concrete, paraffin, sugar, talcum powder, shattered glass, ash, wooden coal, cotton thread, steel wool, thyme, parsley, chocolate, rose pepper, black pepper… to name but a few.
Patrick Chesneau,
Course Leader - Vocational training in Retail, Stage & Event design
Workshop supervisor
