Documentation -- Bi-City Biennale 2017, (W)ego House Shenzhen, China -- MVRDV and The Why Factory

Preparation - sketchup model is very necessary and critical for this model, it did end up helping me a lot with the accuracy of he model

Preparation - after making a replicate of the (W)ego House in sketchup, I pulled each panel apart and then rotated them into the same plane so then can all be exported into AutoCAD/Rhino after for the laser cutting machine

Preparation - the pink box (the 3D model of the pink compartment next to it is just to help to visualise all the pieces and guide me through while gluing)

Preparation - the white box

Preparation - the red box

Preparation - the purple box

Preparation - the green box

Preparation - the yellow box at top

Preparation - the yellow box in the middle

Preparation - the yellow box down the left bottom corner

Preparation - the blue box

Preparation - exporting all the parts into an AutoCAD file

Preparation - a critical step while laser cutting is vector order, which saved a significant amount of time - the steps of using vector order is shown with the photos, and there are also an example of one of my block getting cut with vector order and one without

Preparation - laser cutting with vector order

Preparation - laser cutting without vector order (even tho this is a smaller box with less pieces to cut, it still took longer amount of time without vector order)

Preparation - a testing block is made (the clear one is 1:20 and the black one is 1:50), and I realised that for the purpose of this model, there is no need for it to be so big (1:20) and simply a 1:50 model (the black one) can show all mt intentions

note: a significant difference is spotted and this was only one block, so luckily I have changed all the scales down to 1:50 after the this testing block

Assembly of the model - these are all the blocks laid out after laser cutting, UHU glue (the blue one - expanded polystrene, for plastic) is used and it work very effectively 

Assembly of the model - blades and tweezers are needed in the process of cleaning up excessive glue 

note: I also just used my fingers to spread glue as the edges are very fine for each piece and only a little portion is needed

Assembly of the model - an overview of all blocked after being glued

Assembly of the model - roughly placing each block into their positions

Assembly of the model - I only removed all the protection on the acrylics after everything was glued, so that glues and scratches wouldn't damage each piece

Assembly of the model - final result with a comparison with the sketchup model I built (I used black instead of purple, because purple acrylic was not supplied)