These are examples of physical models that I did while working on my B.A. and M.Arch., back when many studio instructors wouldn't let students make digital models. Nowadays, making models like these would be greatly simplified by the ability to use a lasercutter to cut the pieces of the model.
A model of an arena for swimming competetions. The model was for a 1989 design studio project for Boca Raton, Florida. The geometry was kind of hard to model; it's hard to do domes in cardboard.
Another model I made for a graduate design studio. This one is for a hotel in Des Moines, Iowa. The site was unusually long and narrow, adjacent to the convention center. We did the surrounding site model as a group project.
A model for a 1983 design studio project. The model utilized foamcore, colored matte board, paper, model railroading materials, and blossoms from some kind of bush that has remarkably tree-shaped blossoms. The drawings for the project can be seen here.
