This exercise is intended to apply many of the themes that have been developed in class to a somewhat more realistic situation. We shall start slowly and build in a series of steps.
The first is to pick the appropriate project and build a simple model. Then, in later exercises, we will further refine the model, develop and surrounding for the model, render the model and finally produce images of the model that could be incorporated into pages for both print and the web. More specific instructions will be forthcoming.

For this exercise, each student needs to have a suitable building to model. You may either select from the list below or propose a building but here are some criteria and some suggestions:

• The building should be suitably modest in size, about the size of a house. Nothing over two or three stories in height.
• The building should be suitably modest in complexity. This is not the time to attempt the Guggenheim (either Wright's or Gehry's!) unless you consider yourself to already be quite proficient and ambitious.
• You need to have access to sufficient documentation to allow for a reasonably accurate model. That means drawings that are already dimensioned, or drawings that have a clear graphic scale on them, or drawings that can be scanned and used as a basis on which a model can be made.
• The building must be a noteworthy work of architecture. The results may become part of a school library, available to faculty and student for comparison and analysis. Projects of your own design are not suitable.

You may pick from buildings that already exist but I prefer ones that do not.  Selecting buildings that have never been built allows us to see something as it never has been, and avoids attempts to model reality.
Here are some possibilities that you might consider: