Final Reveal

Drumroll please, I have finished my architectural model! I presented it last night to my professor and a jury of other Pratt professors and graduates, along with the building documents I had drawn up, and got an overall pretty positive response.

The house that I've been studying for the past 5 weeks is the Vanna Venturi house, which Robert Venturi built for his mother in 1962 in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania.

This is what the real Vanna Venturi House looks like:



And this is what my model looks like:



East Side:



West Side:



South Side:



Aerial view:



Color is generally frowned upon in model making but it felt to me like leaving it white would have been too sleek and sexy for such a grandmotherly un-sexy house. Plus I think that it was the little touch that really pulled it together. I'm actually pretty proud of how it turned out.

Building My First Model

I am working on the final project for my summer architectural drawing class: a scale model of the Vanna Venturi House and its corresponding documents. I've started putting together my model, not using glue yet just T-pins to hold it in place while I work. Next I tackle the roof!