City Scapes Logbook

We: Group

I: Myself

Oct. 7

We were assigned the City Scapes project but unfortunately didn�t have enough time to plan everything out.

Oct. 9

We started to plan out everything and discuss what the city should look like and the main design of the city. Me, Linda and YaoYao drew pictures on the blackboard on our individual ideas and then compared them.

Oct. 14

We continued to plan out our city and draw rough sketches of the final design of the city. We started to draw the floor plans.

Oct. 16

We continued to draw our plans and nearly finished on them. We�re still trying to figure out the scale for our city.

Oct. 20

Finally, we�re done our floor plans! And�Linda and YayYao also figured out our scale. Instead of making our floors from wood or Styrofoam, we�re making them out of plastic so the �citizens� of our city can look down through the �glass� floor, like the one in the CN tower in Toronto�^^

Oct. 22

We�ve started and finished cutting the plastic for our floors. We�ve also planned to �punch� small holes through the floors where the dowels will fit as elevators. We�re finally done the floors. Now, we have to plan out the buildings and landscape.

Oct. 24

I�ve started to cut large blocks of wood into smaller pieces to make the buildings out of. We�ve started making our incredibly unique shaped houses and buildings. We spent the whole period cutting and sanding more buildings.

Oct. 28

Oh no! The plastic cracked because the hole was punched in too quickly, now, I have to re-cut two pieces of plastic. We�re continuing to make buildings, even more unique then before�^^ We spent this period making houses and buildings too.

Oct. 30

We�ve started painting our buildings and houses. The colors of the buildings are even wackier than the buildings themselves� We almost finished painting the houses using our different painting techniques. I painted the houses marbled using blue, turquoise, and pink � funky combination of colors in my opinion.

Nov. 3

We modified the holes in our plastic holes and we continued to paint the buildings and make new ones. We�ve also started making the landscape with Styrofoam and mushy paste. Styrofoam is extremely hard to cut using a saw! Took the 4 of us to cut one piece! Lathering the white paste over the Styrofoam is messy but quite enjoyable�^^

Nov. 5

We�ve finished painting the buildings�finally! The mushy paste has dried on top but is still a bit wet underneath but we painted it green anyways.

Nov. 7

We�re finally done all the buildings and we�re continuing with painting the landscapes.

Nov. 12

I made a few extra buildings: a private school and an aquarium and etc. We also decided to have �bridges� on each side of each floor except for the smallest floor at the top. We started and finished making and sanding extra �bridges�. We also painted the bridges with 2 shades of blue � really nice for shadowing. Anyways�the end product is quite pleasing to the eye.

Nov. 14

We�ve finished all the components of the city, we just need to put it together!

Nov. 18

Our last day to work on the project�.hopefully, we�ll finish but a small extension would do us a lot of good� We also need to find a way to insert the dowels into the holes. Ahhhh! So much to do in 1 hour 20 minutes�I wonder if we�ll finish�Of course we will! ^^