Space making is best explored through model making, which needs hands-on-materials approach, resulting in development of craft skills like cutting, bending, pasting and fixing.

Through sketching and drawing one learns the coordination of what the eye sees, brain records, mind visualizes and fingers doodle on the surface as a two dimensional vision... But model making brings magical three dimensional realism to the vision which can respond to changing conditions of light and shade in the environment, and also enlighten about the structural stability of the form, though to a limited extent...

Design and model inputs from first year students of CARE School of Architecture, Trichy, made during a two day workshop.