First Assignments

Almost forgot about these.  These two assignments were our first introduction to creating 3-dimensional forms.  The first one had us creating a three-dimensional surface on a two-dimensional plane using an x-acto knife and some creative folding.  The second one was to create a three-dimensional sculpture exhibiting gradation and movement.  These aren't that great, but I'm putting them up just for you!

Chair Model

Our final assignment is to design and create a chair using nothing more than cardboard and glue.  For this week, we were supposed to create a model of our chair using Bristol board.  This is my chair.  Cute, huh?

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3-D Composition from Balsa Wood

For this assignment, we were supposed to create a three-dimensional composition out of balsa wood.  The design was supposed to demonstrate the concepts of line, plane, and volume, while displaying symmetry, balance, harmony, and proportion.  I designed it so that the solid form at the bottom would be balanced by the open space surrounding it, while the open form at the top gets some visual weight from the walls of rectangles.  However, the two shapes form an octahedron, so the continuation of line is what brings harmony to the piece.

Interlocking Identical Forms

This assignment called for us to design and create our own three-dimensional forms that would be able to interlock.  There are examples of this in real life, such as lego blocks and logs for log cabins.  I was inspired by Tetris for this one.

Here are some other configurations

Stellated Platonic Solid with a Void

This time our assignment was to add stellations to a Platonic solid.  Stellations are additions to a solid that form a point with the number of sides on the stellation equal to the number of sides on the shape to which it's attached.  So, since an octahedron is composed of equilateral triangles, its stellations will have 3 sides.  I chose to work with the octahedron again and this is how it turned out -- pretty, eh?

In addition to stellations, we were supposed to create a void in one side.  This is simply a "hole" dug out of the solid, as you can see here.  I created it by folding a stellation inward instead of out, like the others.  Bristol board.

Archimedean Solids

Archimedean solids are formed from 2 or more regular polygons.  There are only 13 solid shapes that can be formed this way.  This one is called a snub cube -- it's composed of 12 squares and 32 equilateral triangles.  Bristol board.

Platonic Solids

No, that's not a solid who's just a friend. :)  Named after Plato, who studied geometric solids.  He identified 5 shapes that could be formed from multiplying regular polygons (that is, a shape with equal angles and equal-length sides).
Here's a li'l octahedron (that's a solid composed of eight equilateral triangles) I made from Bristol board and love.