Thinking through making

Process

To construct the model I hand cut over 150 wooden dowels, due to worries that the concrete would break the wooden supports if they were too few. This worry about the structural properties of timber was one reason that, during the realisation project, i changed the material strategy of my project to a more lightweight steel system.

The cube at the bottom on the base, rusticated and chipped represents the cathedral, surrounded by the scaffold. The second cube, smooth and polished, represents the centre for heritage and preservation, suspended in the scaffold. Whilst the materiality of my design changed over the year, this relationship was consistently at the core of my project.