Bridge (February 2012)
I made this project to try out various cardcepts. Each small structure is pretty much an experiment of some kind or another.
The first thing I wanted to try was angled shingles on a vertical wall. The wall itself is very straightforward, but during the roofing of each layer, I carefully placed cards so that they protruded in the right areas to later hold cards placed on a diagonal.
The tower in the back right was a series of four 3x walls arranged in a square. I topped it with a short tapered spire. Then I punched out windows on alternating floors. Finally I placed cards to span the corners of the building to produce a shape of a truncated square.
The other structures were just to fill out the space. The bridge across the front was built to show how one can combine horizontal and vertical cells to achieve a series of increasing heights. I built a small curved wall to the left, bridged to the primary bridge with a few cards. To the right, there is a small inverted tower with each layer oriented at a 45˚ angle to the one below.
The first thing I wanted to try was angled shingles on a vertical wall. The wall itself is very straightforward, but during the roofing of each layer, I carefully placed cards so that they protruded in the right areas to later hold cards placed on a diagonal.
The tower in the back right was a series of four 3x walls arranged in a square. I topped it with a short tapered spire. Then I punched out windows on alternating floors. Finally I placed cards to span the corners of the building to produce a shape of a truncated square.
The other structures were just to fill out the space. The bridge across the front was built to show how one can combine horizontal and vertical cells to achieve a series of increasing heights. I built a small curved wall to the left, bridged to the primary bridge with a few cards. To the right, there is a small inverted tower with each layer oriented at a 45˚ angle to the one below.