Architectural models of European countries. House made of paper
Master class on making a Gothic cathedral using the Kirigami technique.
Dumler Tatyana Petrovna, fine arts teacher of MAOU gymnasium No. 56 in Tomsk
Purpose: This work is intended for little artists who like to use different materials; for their teachers and parents.
Target: making the facade of a Gothic cathedral from paper.
Tasks:
- introduce the kirigami technique;
- develop accuracy and perseverance;
- develop imagination, spatial imagination, love of creativity.
Materials: sheet of white paper, scissors, pencil
Today we will get acquainted with the features of Gothic architecture.
The words “Gothic” and “Gothic” come from the name of the warlike barbarian tribe of the Goths, who dealt a mortal blow to the great Roman Empire. Medieval art began to be called Gothic because people then thought this art was rude, barbaric, and not similar to the usual ancient art.
In the Middle Ages, the power of the church was so great that even kings were forced to submit to it. Religion required a person to renounce everything earthly; he had to think only about God. And people began to build temples of unprecedented architecture. The high vaults of the cathedrals, the colored stained glass windows through which rays of light poured, the solemn sounds of the organ - all this captured the imagination of people, instilled in them the idea of the holiness of divine power, and turned them to religion.
Gothic style originated in the middle of the 12th century in northern France; in the 13th century it spread to the territory of modern Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Spain, and England.
The main decoration of the city was the cathedral, which was built over tens and sometimes even hundreds of years. Gothic cathedrals seem light and transparent from the many huge windows. They seem to be woven from stone lace. Steep slopes of roofs, pointed arches, high towers topped with thin spiers - everything creates the impression of a rapid rush into the heights. The height of the towers of the largest Gothic cathedrals reaches 150 meters.
Buildings in the Gothic style were usually built in large cities - they are easily recognizable by their pointed arches, high pointed towers, and large windows with stained glass images on biblical themes. And the sunlight, penetrating through them into the temple, created unique lighting effects.
In the Middle Ages, the skill of masons greatly increased, which made it possible to create complex architectural forms and enormous size of buildings. Typical early (French) Gothic buildings had a central portal with large rose windows above them.
I propose to my students to make the facade of a Gothic cathedral using the Kirigami technique. Kirigami is a type of origami that, unlike its other types, allows for cutting out individual paper parts using scissors. In Japanese, this word means nothing more than cutting paper (kami - paper; kiru - cut).
This unusual and fascinating art is quite young. Its founder is considered to be the Japanese architect Masahiro Chatani, who was the first to decide to make a couple of cuts on a paper figurine to make it easier to fold. The Kirigami technique is widely used by many designers when decorating interiors, creating various decor, and also when decorating gifts.
For work we will need a piece of white paper, scissors and a pencil. We repeat the rules of working with scissors and get started!
Fold the sheet in half. The result is a book. It will need to be divided into three equal parts (you can use a ruler) and bent.
Smooth out the fold lines well.
Next, unfold the sheet and fold it into an accordion along the fold lines.
Take the central part of the accordion in your right hand, and turn the side parts out and connect them together. They are on the left.
Using a pencil, outline the contours of the central part of the tower and the side parts.
We cut along the contour, combining the side parts for a neat symmetrical cutting.
Now we will outline the portal - the decoratively decorated entrance to the cathedral. The arc line on the right side is marked with a pencil.
We make a cut along this line. We bend it. It is important to smooth out the fold line; I bend it in one direction and the other.
We return the door to its place and make two more parallel cuts to the fold line.
Let's repeat the same on the left side. We outline an arc line, make a cut, and bend it.
It is better to cut two side parts together at once. Then we add two parallel arc lines and cut to the fold line.
Now we will outline the window openings - tall, narrow, arched. We draw two lines above the portal - a straight line at the bottom and an arc at the top.
We cut, bend, smooth the fold line well.
Let's make more windows on the left side, making it a little more complicated. Two pairs of lines, one larger, the second inside smaller.
We make cuts along the lines, bend them in different directions, and smooth them out.
And let's try to depict a rose - a large round window, often found on the facades of Gothic cathedrals. Draw a semicircular line.
The easiest pattern to cut out is triangles. We outline them and collect them in the center of the window.
Cut it out.
We have outlined the most basic architectural elements. You can further complicate the façade, add a pinnacle (decorative turrets), cut a wimperg (a pointed gable above a portal or window opening), or any appropriate cuts. But this is at the request of each author individually. And we unfold our workpiece and prepare for the next stage.
If all the fold lines are well smoothed, then the folding process will be easy and fun. Press on the middle of the central window and bend it inward.
Repeat the same with the side windows.
Bend the doors inwards too. Smooth out the fold lines.
We made cuts above the doors, this is an imitation of numerous arches above the portals. Bend one inward.
Let's look at how you can make a window with a more complex shape on the sides. Press on the center, bend, smooth.
From the inside we press on the center of the small windows and bend and smooth them out.
Hello to everyone who loves to create real works of art out of paper using a stationery knife, stylus and glue! Today we are publishing for you a selection of the 9 best architectural structures diagrams for.
Let us remind you that Kirigami is the art of creation. paper crafts related, it is also called Paper architecture(Origamic architecture). However, when creating paper models, unlike it, cutting and gluing paper is used.
On Kirigami schemes Basically, three types of notation are used:
- The solid line indicates where the paper is cut.
- The dotted line is the place where it bends inward, i.e. to the center of the sheet.
- A line consisting of dots is where it bends outward.
To cut paper, use a stationery knife or scalpel (be sure to place a special mat or old magazines under the sheet, this will avoid damage to the table).
A metal ruler is used as an auxiliary tool. With its help, smooth, long cuts are made. And also, to create even bends, a stylus is used.
Any glue will do, but it is better to glue with a glue stick, which does not leave marks and does not wrinkle the paper.
Kirigami architecture diagram
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Arc de Triomphe, France. Built in 1806-1836 by order of Napoleon by the architect Jean Chalgrin.
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Tower, Tower of London (English: the Tower, Tower of London, “Tower”) is a fortress built on the northern bank of the Thames River, the historical center of the city of London. One of the oldest historical buildings in Great Britain, which for a long time served as the residence of English monarchs.
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Tower Bridge is a drawbridge in central London over the River Thames, not far from the Tower of London. It is sometimes confused with London Bridge, located further upstream. Opened in 1894. It is also one of the symbols of Britain.
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The Torri de Belém was originally conceived as a five-tiered lighthouse fortress on the Tagus River. It was built in 1515-1521 under Manuel I. From here, Portuguese sailors sailed to open new trade routes.
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Big Ben is a bell in the clock tower in London. By extension, the name Big Ben also refers to the clock and the entire tower.
Today the tower is one of the most recognizable symbols of Great Britain.
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Now we will look at the topic of how to create templates for a kindergarten, multi-story or private house, as well as a school and a future classroom in it from paper.
It is difficult to learn how to create really complex projects, but it is in your power and interests to assemble a decorative model of a building on a scale of 1:50, having previously drawn on a piece of paper the outlines of the details and facades of the buildings, as well as the entire roof and frame. You can print templates and layouts of structures yourself.
How to make or build a three-dimensional house, apartments and rooms in it? The technology itself is not complicated, but it may seem difficult for the first time, especially for children, so we are sharing step by step how to do it. To make a house model with your own hands, you will need plywood six mm thick, as well as materials for creating facades, partitions and a roof. We will make the frame of the house from plywood and lay it out on a smooth surface.
Gallery: layout of a paper house construction (25 photos)
We create a layout for a house model with our own hands
The process of creating regular flat patterns no less interesting than working with ready-made samples. To do this, you will need a graphics program installed on your PC. It is best to take CorelDraw or a similar program that processes vector images.
In it, with an increase or decrease in the size of the picture, the size of the lines and the textures themselves change in the same ratio. This helps to get real images. And the library of textures included in its shell is huge.
By filling the development detail with texture, you can get a ready-made visual appearance of the main details of the layout . The whole process, including pouring the scan particles a certain texture, applying certain effects and architectural details, as well as inserting pictures from a library of symbols, will take from ten minutes to half an hour, if the structure is not complex. Let's make a scan on our printer and start prototyping.
Creation of complex paper products
The process of creating complex, huge house models is not much different from that described earlier. It’s just that such developments are also done for individual parts of composite layouts. A group photograph of the entire assembly of such a layout shows its individual parts and the assembly diagram.
Architects usually create miniature models (models) of buildings. Before you start building a house or an entire residential complex, you first need to make a sample of it to scale (photo). Real architects make models from PVC (polyvinyl chloride), and parts for future buildings are cut out on a special milling machine, which is programmed with a specific computer program.
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Such a machine is capable of not only cutting out microscopic parts with pinpoint precision, but also applying a cross-section to their surface that imitates brickwork or other coating. Thanks to this, maximum reliability of the layout is achieved. The machine cuts out tiny windows, doors and other parts. After this, the architect connects them together using a solvent, which melts the edges of the PVC plates and tightly fastens them to each other.
The same thing can be done at home, but only without a milling machine, PVC and solvent, but with the help of cardboard, paper, PVA glue and scissors. The production technology is very similar to what the pros use. The difference lies only in the materials and, of course, the quality of the model produced in this way.
But if you try really hard, you can make a paper building no worse than what an architect creates using a high-tech milling machine. So, how to make a house model with your own hands using a basic set of stationery?
What do you need for work?
To make a house model, you will need the following tools:
thick white/colored A4 paper (several sheets);
cardboard of the same size;
a sharp construction knife (it is convenient for cutting out the walls of a building, and then cutting small windows and doors into them);
glue brush;
PVA glue;
a wooden or plastic board for modeling (it’s convenient to cut out parts on it so as not to damage the table);
scissors;
pencil;
ruler.
You can also use a regular household hair dryer to speed up drying of glued parts. You can cut out a building from either paper or cardboard. The last option is more reliable, but it is a little more difficult to work with. You can cut out the entire layout from paper, and then mount it on several “load-bearing” cardboard walls (photo). This will strengthen the entire structure and give it more stability.
Creating a diagram of the future building
There are two ways to create the walls of a future building. For the first, a scheme like the one in the photo below is used. This is literally the entire building, but in a centerfold. Adjacent walls can be made continuous and not cut. They will simply need to be bent later, forming the corners of the building.
Immediately mark the locations of future windows. They must be on the same level. Don't forget to leave small indentations on the sides and bottom of the walls, as in the diagram. Afterwards, with their help it will be possible to connect the structural parts with each other. The entire building should be done to scale so that later the walls, roof and other parts of the house are proportional.
Making a layout: method 1
After the entire diagram is drawn on paper, all that remains is to cut out the future building, bend the lines marked with a blue dotted line and cut the windows with a construction knife. Use a modeling board. It allows you to cut out parts from cardboard and then glue them together much more conveniently.
The scheme presented in the photo above is suitable for the production of the simplest houses. A more complex structure will literally have to be made up of several parts. By the way, the layout can also be made to open (so you can see the interior of the house). It is on this principle that children's doll houses are made, which can be purchased in the store.
To make such a layout (photo), it is advisable to use the thickest cardboard you can find. In order for part of the wall to open, an appropriate fastener is used (this can be found in old Soviet-made boxes) or simply a piece of cardboard bent in half. Doors can be made to open in the same way.
Method 2
The second method is suitable for producing models of buildings with more complex configurations (photo).
First, you need to fold a sheet of paper like an accordion, as in the photo. The more folds, the more walls you get, but their width will be correspondingly smaller. On one fold you need to draw ½ of the building's facade. We draw very carefully, with a thick line outlining the places of the cut, and a thin line outlining the places where the paper is folded.
Then we cut along the bold lines and unfold the accordion. The result will be a whole façade, absolutely proportional and even, as if in a mirror image. We bend the paper holders as in the photo and cut the windows with a construction knife.
After this, the parts of the structure are assembled together, coated with glue at the joints and glued together. We make a base for the layout from cardboard. When the entire structure is ready, you can paint it or stick some images (as in the photo).
Making trees and grass
To make the layout look more authentic and to be able to visually assess its scale, it is advisable to decorate the cardboard stand with greenery: grass and trees. To do this you will need:
a can of green paint;
acrylic paint of several green shades;
dried twigs (dead wood);
a piece of foam rubber;
glue;
awl;
paint brush.
First, in any unnecessary container, you should mix several tones of green acrylic paint (dark and light to achieve the maximum effect of authenticity). After this, you need to cut the foam rubber into small pieces and properly saturate them with this paint. When the foam rubber is colored, we leave it to dry for a day.
We cut the dried foam rubber into such small pieces that they literally resemble crumbs. This will be our grass. After this, paint the cardboard stand well with greenery several times, and when the paint dries, cover it with a thick layer of glue. Pour green foam rubber crumbs onto the wet glue in random order. The grass is ready.
When the glue is completely dry, you need to make several holes in the cardboard base with an awl. Be very careful not to damage the entire layout. We paint dry twigs with green spray paint and stick them into the holes in the stand. Now the trees have taken their place. All this vegetation makes our paper building model look more realistic.
