Delaney Brummond

PART 1

For my final project in form, I am going to build the Denver Art Museum.

Below are my sketches. I’m still debating trying to do metal rather than paper. If I have to pick right now I’ll say I’m going to print pieces of paper out to start and then use them to transfer to a sheet of metal! I will then cut out pieces, trying to keep as many pieces together as I can.

What I will need includes

• Printer
• Paper
• Sheet of metal
• Metal snips
• A way to bend the metal along a line
• Potentially soldering supplies

PART 2

Here’s my finished model. I’ve started trying to figure out the metal but I’m having a hard time thinking about how I’m going to put it all together. I wanted to just build each separate piece and then put them together but I don’t think that would work? I may end up having to cut after building so I think I would bend everything as much as I can and then put it together temporarily, see what would need to be cut and then go from there?

PART 3

I am pretty much done with my model. To finish it off, I really just want to make a platform to put it on. Partially because the bottom is pretty ugly, and partially because I think it would make it look nicer.

Here is when I had folded all the pieces, and was preparing to put them all together.

I really can’t tell you how difficult this was. I deep into the process realized that the final product would be mirrored, which I realized was due to how I cut out the metal from the printed paper.

I also definitely hit a breaking point and ended up using aluminum duct tape on the outside rather than my previous plan of either soldering or taping the inside. Overall, I spent the majority of 3-4 days in a row working on the fabricated art museum. I am proud that I finished, but definitely wish I had planned more and had more time to figure out the ins and outs of metal working.

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PART 4

In the end, I would’ve definitely designed and created it differently. I think I could’ve had a much more polished piece if I had designed and planned more. I still plan on making a base for it but have not finished it yet.

I put a gif to show the whole thing, but it’s shaky.