Modelling the main hall at Claypotts Castle at first felt like a totally scripted process and I was unsure what if anything I was going to gain from the process. However as I explored how I might physically model the space I begun to realise how complicated this would be and to appreciate how complex and rich the main hall space was.
The models are at a 1/50 scale and to create the moulds the plan was cut out at 5mm (250mm) intervals from rectangular pieces of kappa board, allowing me to create both a positive and negative mould with only one cut. This process of taking a solid object and subtracting from it to form a space was not something I had considered before. The final outcome of negative model I found to be more evocative than the positive model and gives a greater sense of space being gouged from a solid form.
