Description

Between the end of August and beginning of October Maine College of Art's SYL War of the World's class mission was to research, design, and construct scale model houses based off the average town of Muncie, Indiana.  I was lucky enough to be a part of this.  After having completed all the finishing touches on my model a new assignment was given, that we were to come up with our own project.  

    I started by evaluating the house.  What was it exactly?  I had come to the conclusion that this piece was aiming to be a visually perfect house.  While constructing it my partner and I had to cover up flaws with little tricks, and our ultimate goal was to make it so that the viewer wouldn't be able to tell what we made it with.  This Parthenon like mind set was not how I was used to working. I prefer to allow the material to show through, for there to be flaws and quirks.  

    I also began to think about how average and boring the houses all were from the outside, just imagine how bland they must be on the inside as well.  So for the second half of the semester, instead of creating another visually perfect house, I decided to portray the quirks and uniqueness of a home.  I chose to illustrate a view of a bedroom and another of a kitchen with fabric pieces sewn onto one another.  Perspectives are skewed and thread colors clash with the fabric and patterning to represent the personalities a human brings into a home.  

Schematics!