Start of the Project

Welcome to my blog,
                                  The purpose of this blog is for me to document my progress through my third year model making project entitled External Brief.
The project was to acquire a brief from an existing model making company and then create their design in the 10 weeks leading up to christmas (the start of my final year).

Over summer I acquired a brief from Lazenby Design Associates, a zoo, aquarium and museum designer, who I also worked for over the two and a half months of summer.

The designing of my project involved several meetings between David Lazenby and I, where the project was discussed and from this I produced sketch models of designs.

I am now at the point where I'm back at University and the design has been finalised but some areas will later be discussed with my client to ensure that the model meets industry standard and Lazenby Designs specialist requirements.

Here is the design : Palau Aquarium

This will be a 1:50 scale model this is the main architectural construction, but the physical model I build will include scale people, rock work, corals, exhibit boards, side tanks, vegetation and hopefully lighting. The environment of the tank will be that of Palau a series of islands in the pacific.


David Lazenby has created a model based on Palau :

This gives me an idea of what he expects.


So far i have some research on corals and palau but nothing structured.


Jobs to do:
Organise Research, what do I need to research?
Build basic structure?
Produce designs for the wall tanks to be discussed with David


Pictures of my work will be uploaded hopefully daily as I work hard to complete this project efficiently and to the best of my ability