Working on Weekends (ALL NIGHTER NUMBER 1.pt 1)

We met again on Saturday the 22/03/09 to build.

Nilo and Franchesca

Upon realizing the idiocy of trying to make forms and then wrapping every one of them in paper was, we decided to stop being so cheap and invest in the proper materials. Thus throwing away everything we had done in the 6 hours on Thursday. woot.

Armed with a big sheet of whitecore card and a watercolour pad, we started from scratch again.

In order to illustrate the lack of transparency in the building, we decided would keep all external openings closed. And since we needed to layer sheets to achieve the correct thickness at 1:100, we were able to use the sheet of card undernieth it.

mmmm... layers... gotta love cutting the same thing more than once :)

"weighting" for glue to dry.
(lame i know... David dared me to write that!)

We first erected the external walls and the northern stair boundaries. Layering them in 2 to 3 pieces (note: this was no ordinary card, it was called 'mattboard' and we suspect it had some kind of plastic compound in the middle) the larger pieces needed more even pressure to prevent the corners raising up.

WIP of the front steps

4 walls, a roof and the walls of the back staircase completed during the daytime

With Franchesca having to leave in the evening for an interview, Nilo and I continued building well into the night....

To be continued....