Making Prototype

 In the 7th week session, I made a prototype for my 3D outcome. I was creating minaret and dome for my 3D mosque design. I used the materials that was in our studio and my tutor helped me to generate the idea of the designs.

First I tried to create basic Minaret to understand how to design, I used mount board for the Minaret. First  to cut the mount board I used craft knife, I drew straight lines with used ruler and I crossed on the straight lines by pressing the craft knife lightly to give the circle shape.

For the dome prototype, I researched on the shape of the dome and watched a video about the dome shape. However before watching the video I tried to create the dome by myself and I did wrong.

These are the mistakes that I made 

To make an easy and better dome, I can use Geodesic shape. So I looked the instructions of the Geodesic shape, I need to use 2 type of triangles to make it and I find a website calculation the diameter of the Dome and sides of the triangle. Here is the link: https://www.desertdomes.com/dome2calc.html.

I tried to design the dome like Selimiye Mosque that located in Netherland Haarlem.

After calculating the sides of  triangles I started to create the dome. Here is the process of the Dome that I created.

This prototype will definitely help me to design my final 3D outcome because I learned what was mistakes and the materials that I should use for my 3D outcome.