Week 9: TINKERCAD Exploration











Week 9: This week, we continued our process that we started last week on creating a cityscape for 3D Printing. Last week we were to collect images to use as references and guides to get us thinking of the kinds of cityscapes that we would be creating later on. This week, we focused entirely on creating it in a online program and printing it out in a 3D printer. This is the result.


Craft: For the craft,  I used a computer, the Autodesk TinkerCad modeling program, the MakerBot 3D Printer, a camera, and a screen capture program called LiteCam. The important part of archiving was making sure that the screenshots were not only high quality, but also clearly showed enough of the assignment from different angles. Using TinkerCad, a free 3D sculpture/architecture program by Autodesk, I created the city block that would be my section of the greater class project of a fully realized city. I kept in mind the final product and how the size of the 6x6 inch city block would convey its own sense of scale and size. Thus the production of the piece needed to have place and shape in mind. It had to be living.

Composition: For the composition of this assignment, I went onto my computer and went online to use the 3D graphic/architecture program TinkerCab to create the cityscape. The program was quite simple to use. Like building blocks, all I had to do was place the simple shapes onto the designated area of 6x6 for our individual sections. 1/8 inch would be the equivalent of a floor. With that being the case, I began creating the buildings. I used separate colors for the roofs of certain buildings to distinguish and to make the process of evaluating much easier on me since I would be able to tell which pieces were to go to what and make clutter not a problem. One of the difficulties of creating the buildings were making sure that I selected the right one. Since they were so close together, making sure to select the right one made the workflow a bit slower than I would have liked but since it was my first time using this program, I would say it was satisfying. After creating the composition of a city block, I then transferred the file into MakerBot 3D Printer and printed it out. After 14 Hours. the process was done and here are the final results. Keeping in mind the idea of space and place was important as to make sure that the city would actually look like city. Buildings had to appear in an orderly and structured manner that replicated a city feel. Following its creation, I took screen shots of the finished product and photos of the printed piece.

Concept: The concept of the assignment was to create a city block that would fit into a larger cityscape formed from the collection of all of our class' city blocks to form a whole and realized city. My section was that of a commercial center. As a result, I had to come up with buildings and the feel of a bustling, commercial and mercantile district. How I did this was by creating what would be two/three story stop buildings, a park with a fountain, and a large mall at its center with a raised parking garage to show that the district would be populated to a substantial degree. All these came together to give the 6x6 in piece much more depth and scale than it would otherwise have.

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