Object Design and Fabrication - Nadia

This semester ended very abruptly, but luckily the last place I was in the school was the Thing Tank and I was able to finish laser cutting my Hogwarts paper model. It ended up being quite detailed, so I really needed the laser cutter. I am proud of the final product and think that I was able to incorporate my peer's feedback into my castle. After my prototype, I revised the bridge to be more sturdy and have 3D railings. On the towers, I added lattice windows on the bottom room exterior and changed the mini-towers at the top to better reflect the original Lego model. To make the towers more sturdy I added a second layer of paper to each level. It was really cool to watch the laser cutter cut and score my project. Below are the different pieces I needed it to cut out. Below are two renders of my model in rhino. I used the plastic material in different colours. Here is my finished paper model: From the back, it has three open levels. That is how the actual...

For my paper-craft object, I decided to recreate a Lego set that combines two significant parts of my childhood memories. The first part of that being Lego, which can take partial credit for my passion for 3D object design. The second part being Harry Potter, a book and movie series I used to be totally obsessed with, and that still hold a very high spot on my best books of all-time list. The Lego set of the entrance to Hogwarts I am recreating was a lot of fun to build the first time, so I decided to take another go at it almost ten years later. Just this time making it out of paper. Here are the results: First I created the model in Rhino and unfolded all of its parts. When creating it I simplified the towers to be copies of each other, this way I could focus on details more, and the left tower in the actual Lego set has a balcony on the second floor, which wouldn't hold up the roof very well. After printing off all of the pieces of my model I assembled it and th...