Model Fabrication Zine

MODEL FABRICATION Jose Hernandez architecture | 2021

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Canyon Crystals

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Red Carpet in C

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Archi-Voltron

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Cal Poly SLO Design Village Competition

Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin Exhibition

Bureau Spectacular Dezeen + Adidas

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Canyon Crystals

Design Village Competition

Canyon Crystals was a collaborative project for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s 2019 Design Village Competition.

The project explored sensory deprivation in a temporary structure, taking cues from James Turrell’s work and OMA’s work. Turrell’s work with light and space influenced the sensory aspect of the project while the structure for OMA’s CCTV Headquarters began to influence the structure for each crystal.

Awards: “Best In Show” and “People’s Choice.”

Photographs by CPSLO & team mates

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Constructed of a 1”x1” steel tube welded structure and 1/2” x 1/2” steel tube bracing, each cone was assembled individually and connected with bolts, wing nuts and eye bolts.

A white coroplast skin allowed the structure to be seen from within.

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The apertures frame a view of the sky while allowing natural light in throughout the day. Yet, at night the apertures become dark voids in what appears to be a boundless space. The cones are lit up from within, emphasizing the sensory deprivation concept.

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Red Carpet in C TOLO Architecture

“Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin: Red Carpet in C is a collaboration between painter, Yunhee Min, and architect, Peter Tolkin.

The idea for this project evolved out of Min and Tolkin’s shared enthusiasm for music, architecture, and color. These interests led them to Goethe who described the relationship between architecture and music as “Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” Conceived as performative architecture, this large fabric installation functions as both an object to be viewed and a space to be inhabited.”

Text by TOLO Architecture

Photographs by Peter Tolkin

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“Constructed of fabric and colored paper tubes, its soft, undulating parabolic shape is set in visual relief against the classical proportions, meter, and time signature of Culver Center of the Arts’ historic atrium.”

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Archi-Voltron

Bureau Spectacular

“In collaboration with Dezeen and Adidas Originals, ArchiVoltron – a design for P.O.D.System Architecture – is a 1:100 scale model of a conceptual mixeduse development comprising a group of high-rise buildings.

As well as representing an architectural concept, the model is designed to be used as a toy for cats to climb on, and can also be taken apart to create five individual pieces of furniture.”

Text by Bureau Spectacular

Photographs by Injinash Unshin

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Construction involved applying bondo, sanding and painting 3d-printed and cut MDF pieces before being assembled. Additional materials such as carpet and fluffy material were added for resting areas for cats.

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Jimenez Lai stated that upon seeing the P.O.D.System shoe, he and Joanna Grant were reminded of the 1980’s cartoon Voltron.

In the cartoon, a series of smaller robots came together to become one so, “couldn’t architecture do the same?”

THANK YOU

Jose Luis Hernandez | jlh1@cpp.edu