The first of a 3-part project centered around Charleston, South Carolina.
This part of the assignment had me and my project partner creating a model of the Charleston Peninsula based on the maps and studies we had done previously.
Our model was based off of building and street history, as well as highly experimental. The height of the wooden blocks represents the age of that section of town (the older the taller)
Impossible to see from the top, but the medium that is actually holding the blocks together are strips of metal that represent the major roadways. Their height also corresponds to their age.
Around the entire model, the white translucent color is actually soap, representing the rest of the land, up to the coastline.
The soap was originally supposed to be suspended in the middle, with the wood blocks above, and the metal below, but technical problems resulted in the model you see here.
