International Twig Station

Our fourth project in 3D Design involved the use of multiple objects to form a larger object. The multiplied object had to be related to the conglomerate object in some way, either by way of comparison or juxtaposition.

For my project, I decided to juxtapose, and build a model of the International Space Station out of twigs. The ISS is arguably the single most advanced chunk of technology ever assembled, and the twig is the first tool used by our primitive hominid ancestors millions of years ago...

The station's main truss is a single dowel rod painted black, about which a scaffold of twigs is glued. the scaffold anchors the eight main solar arrays.

The station's modular habitat is suspended from the truss by loops of wire. The modules themselves are cylindrical pieces of black-painted foam, wrapped in twigs.