The design has stayed reasonably constant for a while now —maybe I’ve honed in on what it wants to be.

I’m currently engaged in another form of model building – the corrugated cardboard kind. It’ll be of the site and it’s environs—at 1:50: damn big for a model, but then I always was a sucker for model building ever since my student days at Architecture School at the University of Cape Town. hang-on: even earlier, as a kiddie I remember building “ye olde galleon” out of all-kinds of shit that was lying around the home. Shudder. It was kitschy—to—the—max (and not even in a nice way). I digress…

For added challenge, I’ve decided not to cut and stack each cut layer of corrugated card, one stacked above the other following the contours of the land. Oh no, we’ve gotta push this thing. I’m running the card layers vertically (oriented in plan on due North). Since the site is so steep, we’ll end up with a rather imposing sculpted object – about 1.2 x .8 x .6 meters. 200 layers of card. Gulp.

We bought a 50 meter roll of the stuff a while ago, and have been using it as a (very comfy) stool in our studio / living room. It regularly gets attacked by Sputnik, the resident Cornish Rex, and has ended up with a lovely ‘used’ quality – all soft around the edges. I’m expecting this is how the site model will end up in places – all bashed and a bit casual-looking. Hmmmm.

I was thinking that I should put some part of the models volume to good use – and provide the odd cavity to store bits. Possibly a cache for all my hand-sketch doodles and drawings – they already take up a small-sized box.