Studio Exercise 2 - Paper Folding

1. 

Urban Oasis by UNStudio 
Beach Road, Singapore, 2006

This is my representation of the Urban Oasis building designed by UNStudio, I struggled a lot at first to create the curving effect on the facade of the building. After my tutor, Vinh, helped me a lot working out how to create this design I was able to reproduce something that vaguely portrayed the actual design.

2. 

The reaccuring patterns and shapes that I could see in UNStudio's designs was a lot of curving and strong geometrical shapes. They also had a lot of dominate lines and corners. Most of their designs also consist of triangular and square shapes.

3.

Brussels Airport Connector by UNStudio
Belgium, 2011

This paper model was very rushed but nonetheless I created something that vaguely looked like the Brussels Airport Connector. It was difficult to get the jagged shape but it was much easier than the other tasks because we got to use multiple pieces of paper.

 The experience of this tasks was a good way to visualise the designs and see the shapes and patterns evident in each building. It also showed how limitations, such as using just 1 piece of paper, can affect our final product. Overall, a very challenging and different experience/ exercise.