Brutalist Concrete Lego City

Step One: Getting Started

Before we started this assessment off we needed to understand what a brutalist building is. To do this we researched and looked at photos of some of the brutalist buildings around and in Perth. For example we looked at the Perth concert hall, the Perth art gallery and the Perth council house just to name a few. These buildings were and still are all good examples of brutalist building around Perth. But you may be thinking that those are cool buildings and all but what makes them all brutalist buildings well I’m here to tell you. Brutalist Buildings are buildings that have big overhangs or they can also be an irregular shape just like the Perth council house and the Perth concert hall. Buildings can also be classed as a brutalist building if the building is built with reoccurring modular shapes this means the brutalist design incorporates similar shapes throughout the building, for example boxes or cubes. An example of this is the Perth concert with the vertical cylinders that are supporting the overhang of the roof.

Step Two: Building Lego

The next step to do was building the Lego that we would be covering with the silicon mould that we made later on. So we got told by the teacher to Mrs Elscot to make three different Lego test models but we had to build one then we had to take photos of it then build the next one and take photos of it and so on. so I made 3 and took photos. After we took the photos we had to choose out of the three Lego Builds which one we wanted to use for our final build. After we rebuilt it we had to stick the bottom of the Lego build onto a wooden Board so we could cover it with the pinkysil we used later on. But as I was about to grab a wooden board Mrs Elscot that if we have really large border lengths around the Lego and if we had a lot of over-hangs the cement Lego pieces would just crumble to pieces so we gat told to make our Lego bits smaller and with less over-hangs so I quickly changed the size and shape of the Lego model so that it wasn’t to big or too small and so that there wasn’t may over-hangs that could make the cement Lego model crumple into lot’s of different pieces.

Step three: Building Borders

The next step was to hot glue gun the bottom of the Lego to the wood board and then measure out and build a corflute border around the edges of the Lego building and once we had measured the corflute out we would hot glue it around the sides of the Lego so I started measuring out the corflute and cutting it to shape when Mrs Elscot realised that if we make the boarders go closer to the Lego we wouldn’t use so much pinkysil and it wouldn’t be as hard to get it out of the pinkysil so I then recut the corflute I had already cut for the bigger edges to the perfect size and hot glued it all together so we could poor the pinkysil to make the final mould to put the stirred up concrete in.

Step four: Pouring the Pinkysil

First we had to fill the boarders that we made in the previous step and hot glued onto the wood with water we filled the boarders to the brim see how much of both of the pinkysil mixtures we need to combine to make sure we made it equal and perfect, once we had done that we put the two parts of the pinkysil mixture in a jug and measured it to the right milometers we needed to put too and we mixed that together and poured it into the boarders and over the Lego.

Step five: Getting the Lego Out

Next we had to get the Lego out of the finished and hardened pinkysil moulds that we had just made in the last step. Some people had struggled getting the Lego out but I didn’t because mine was so small.

Step six: Making and Pouring Concrete

The next step was mixing and pouring the cement into the pinkysil mould and getting the final piece out of the mould but unfortunately I was not able to do this as I missed nine days of school due to Covid-19.