The museum’s courtyard is missing a centerpiece: a place where the visitor can get a breath of fresh air and take a break from their journey through the world of art. The idea arises to create a sculpture. The curator asks you to create a sculpture that includes both additive form and carved space-making like his favorite Mary Miss' Field Rotation.   The museum has many extra 2” x 8” x 8’ wood studs and the donated services of a concrete firm.  The curator would like a sculpture that uses the wood studs to define inter-connecting spaces without fully enclosing them.  The concrete base can be cast with voids and relief contouring that complements the wood structure above.

Purpose

• To introduce sculpting space with additive modular form and subtractive carving
• To introduce a 3D modeling program (Sketchup) as a design tool

Objectives

To become familiar with

• Navigating 3D space, saving and retrieving views
• Transforming simple objects in 3D space by moving, rotating, scaling and mirroring
• Exploring design variations through layer visibility
• Using component (symbols) and groups to organize a model