Cardboard Construction

On Tuesday we had a cardboard construction workshop with Rachel Ortas, exploring how to use flat surface to create something 3D by folding, cutting etc to design and make an object. It was basically like making something out of nothing. So, as our project is about London, I decided to use the word London and turn it into London Bridge.... hope that makes sense.
I think it will make more sense after having a look at the photos of what we did in the workshop.

This is the rough drawing I made trying to turn the word London into London Bridge.

So at first I drew it onto the card which I was gonna make the model with, then I decided that I would rather make it with white card so then I can paint over it, but I don't think that it was a very good idea.

Cutting in progress......

Turning the edges with ruler and bone, I got to know about this tool called bone in this workshop and it is actually very useful for paper folding, so i bought one for myself from the shop immediately after getting free from the workshop.

This is the farthest I got with my cardboard model in the workshop, it was so frustrating when I couldn't stick the edges together, I think I needed a stronger glue for that and i should have made the edges a bit wider so that they were easy t stick together. Well I guess I will be redoing the whole thing again, and hopefully it will work this time. I will work on the same thing but improve it a bit, and will be posting the improved model very soon.

Here are a few photos of what other people did in the workshop......