Card City (November 2010)
Taking advantage of a four day weekend afforded me by the Thanksgiving holiday, I decided to build some free form card structures. This project sort of evolved as I went.
It started with me wanting to practice making cylindrical towers with a single support column as the core, and I learned a lot while building this one. I spent entirely too much time on this first one because I was unsure of what an optimal construction process would be. I have since become a lot more comfortable with building cylindrical buildings. Cylindrical towers like this one are essentially individual columns arranged in a circle of the desired diameter and bridged with cards after each layer so that there are resting places for shingling to fill in the gaps once the desired height is reached.
When starting this build, I had no intention of making a stadium, especially one this large. But once I laid out its footprint, it sort of naturally followed that I would need to make one so large.
I needed something to fill in the back left of the frame, and walls are quick and efficient ways to do that. To spruce it up a bit, I added a corner tower, a subtractive staircase, and a 2x2 hollow in a 4x wall.
Overall, an excellent project to demonstrate a variety of cardcepts.
It started with me wanting to practice making cylindrical towers with a single support column as the core, and I learned a lot while building this one. I spent entirely too much time on this first one because I was unsure of what an optimal construction process would be. I have since become a lot more comfortable with building cylindrical buildings. Cylindrical towers like this one are essentially individual columns arranged in a circle of the desired diameter and bridged with cards after each layer so that there are resting places for shingling to fill in the gaps once the desired height is reached.
When starting this build, I had no intention of making a stadium, especially one this large. But once I laid out its footprint, it sort of naturally followed that I would need to make one so large.
I needed something to fill in the back left of the frame, and walls are quick and efficient ways to do that. To spruce it up a bit, I added a corner tower, a subtractive staircase, and a 2x2 hollow in a 4x wall.
Overall, an excellent project to demonstrate a variety of cardcepts.
