Not being a set designer, I wasn’t much interested in making everything to scale and accurate to the mm, especially as I only had 7 days for the entire project and I was already on day 2. The relevance of this project to me was getting a 3D representation of where the graphics would go. I finally began cutting the foam board for the base layout and the walls, which I loosely taped together with masking tape. This helped give me scale to make the windows and doors to. By not glueing everything straight away meant I could tweak the design if needed.
I sketched out and cut the double windows from 300gsm Bristol board which I chose to use as it’s strong, sturdy and when folded it can hold its shape. I designed the main windows so they could all open and close, and then cut the frames out of the wall pieces and fitted the windows in. I did the same with the doors and door frames. Lastly, I sketched and cut the 2 balcony railings and simple windows that went behind them which only half opened. I used my scalpel blade for all of this as it was fiddly.
When it did come to glueing, I chose to use a slower drying super glue called “Bostik” for fixing all my pieces together. The glue takes 30s to go off, giving me time to place and reposition pieces if necessary.