I made a model of the garden scrap people to help me visualize them and work out the dimensions of the pieces. Now that you’ve seen photos of the real things (here and here), take a few minutes to play around with the 3D model, its lots of fun.
You don’t need special software, just free Adobe Reader. And most computers now come with Adobe Reader installed.
Click on “Continue reading” below and the model will load.
PATIENCE It takes about 20 seconds for the model to load.
Another look at a plant stand
Lisa found an enormous philodendron that was spilling out of its pot. It needed to be raised up off the ground to protect the leaves and to display it in all its glory.
I had previously designed a plant stand for a smaller, lighter weight plant. This new phil stand needed to be taller and stronger. After trying all sorts of ideas, I settled on two designs. One was an enlarged version of my previous stand. The second arranged the horizontal 
supports and legs into a pinwheel. I made a model to present them. (top figure) We picked the pinwheel.
Not so much building as analyzing
Form
I thought the How House was pretty simple, until I tried to draw a floor plan. I then started a model to help me understand it, and found out how complex it really is. 
Although I present this analysis in a linear form, “building” the How House, it was designed as a whole and not in a step-by-step fashion. (figure 1) Continue reading RM Schindler’s How House, 1925, part 4 of 4, form