CONCRETE FINAL
Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Typology: Seminar
Date: Spring 2019
Model Materials: MDF Board, Portland Cement, Sand, Screws, Steel Mesh
Software Used: AutoCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhino
The last assignment for the concrete seminar was very open-ended. It was left up to the students to create an art piece made out of concrete to be placed in the lobby of Renaissance Hall. Me and two other students teamed up to create a concrete sculpture of the door named “Dave,” that sits at the entrance of Renaissance. The goal was to duplicate the antique door and mimic it with concrete at full scale. It was a crazy assignment, especially compared to the rest of the class who made projects barely exceeding two feet tall. Many failures were made when creating the door, especially with the mold and estimating how much cement and sand to purchase. But in the end, the three of us maneuvered the three-hundred-pound door from outside our studio, where it was curing, to inside the lobby to be placed by the door named “Dave.”
