Project 3: Shibam Paper Model

We're going to continue our exploration of different model making techniques by looking at paper models. 

You might think of paper as a bad model making materials, but paper is easy to cut, easy to glue, and with the right skill-set you can make pretty much anything. Before we begin our exploration of paper model making, here are a few videos I found:

We are going to start our paper modeling with a set of buildings from your Scaled Model Making (SMM) kit. That you picked up in the bookstore. Look for the set of sheets called "Miniature Desktop Towns (Shibam).

Shibam is called the "Manhattan of Yemen" because of the amazingly tall mud brick (adobe) buildings. UNESCO (United Nations) declared them a World Heritage site because of their unique construction. Here's a video:

We are going to make Shibam out of paper!

You will need the instruction sheet for The Shibam models. That is available on Teams.