Andrew Ramsey- Week 8

By this week I had been working on the model for awhile, which lead me to another train of thought. I added up the cost of materials and considered my pay to begin assuming the value of the model. This helped me see the view that this is not just a model to get through a review, but an investment. An investment to showcase to a client an idea in an easily tangible way and the unassumable value that contributes to the development of a project. I've become an opponent to physical models in school because I prefer to focus on digital work, and models are always a removal from that work and a huge time burden. Working on this project, just referencing from floor plans and elevations of a project I never saw a 3D model of or worked on digitally made me think different. It's easy to assume you don't need a model when you've built every detail and line yourself and know the design. Stepping back and making a model out of a project I didn't create made me feel like a client, where I had to decipher all I was presented with and had to make sense of all of it. Then on top of this talking with MPS, trying to make sense of their project, and seeing how long a project can be in the works helped me understand the true value of the design process and the output.