Work Experience

I spent 2 weeks on work experience at RAA doing a couple of models for Jen Sheehan, a freelance modelmaker and 2007 graduate from our degree. We were making two interior architecture models for the second phase of a competition to win the commission to redesign the exhibition spaces of the Humboldt Museum, Berlin.
The models were of a Japanese cultural area, displaying artefacts, illustrations and projections from and about the country and, a South Pacific room which, contained traditional sailing and fishing craft and other artefacts from the region.
The models we made were at 1:50 and were designed to show a mix of the general feel of the rooms as well as specific details.
I was working with Jonathan Freemantle in the first week and Laura Penman in the second week. In the first three days Jonathan and I were set about making the floor layouts of the two rooms and the display cases. I was assigned the Japan room and he got the South Pacific.
Jen informed us in the Tuesday that she would not be there on the Thursday and Friday of week one and the Monday of the second week. This meant Jonathan and I would be left to our own devices for two days and then I would have to show Laura what we'd been doing and then instruct her on how to go about making the pieces we'd been given for those days.
We started working on the boats of the South Pacific room on Wednesday afternoon which, we would continue with for the days Jen wouldn't be there as well as moving onto the huts and decorative pillars.
This task was by far the most enjoyable of all the making because it was simple and intuitive. The boat hulls were carved 10mm foam core and the sails, framework and rigging was all styrene (0.5mm and 1mm). There were ten boats in total, some much more complex than others. A few were simply long, narrow rectangles of foam core carved, roughly, into canoe shapes.

- I am unable to include photos of my work on this project at this time because the competition is still live and undecided. I will be able to show photos at a later date when informed I am allowed to by RAA and Jen Sheehan.