PS/IS 686 | Brooklyn, NY

Skyscraper Project and Planning with Clay

Last week in math class, students completed a 3D quick clay sculpture of their designs.  This allowed students to think more about the proportions within their designs.  Some questions that came up were: What percentage of the property do we want the building’s footprint to take up? If I want my building to have a feature on the top, should it be 1/3, 1/4, or 1/5 of the building? If that is 1/4 of the building, how many feet would that be in real life?

For the clay sculpture, students constructed armatures.  This gave students a chance to use the tools that they will use later in the project.  One inch of the clay sculpture is equal to eighty feet in real life.

 

Building Armatures

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Some of the Clay Sculptures

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