Block out
10/10/23
I started out with a few trial runs of the gazebo, as I wanted to figure out how to get the shape of the roof first.
Trial 1
I started off by making the base first, getting the shape right, and deciding between a hexagonal or octagonal shape. I felt the latter would be better. I liked the shape on this one but I didn’t like how the bottom looked, I felt like it was to thick and bulky so I tried something else.
Trial 2
Using the same shape as the first trial, I made the base thinner. However, I had lots of difficulty making the roof, Using the cone, I tried to split it into 8 parts, making the sides of the base. I tried shaping the roof into a soft curve, but I couldn’t seem to create what I had in mind .
Trial 3
Looking at other references from my Pinterest board, I changed the base again, adding stairs to the entrance. I felt like this added more flow. I also felt that reducing the roof to 6 parts would look better, as it looked very messy and a bit much with that many splits in the roof.
Looking at the pictures I gathered together on Pinterest, I realised a lot of them actually had steps going up. It definitely made the model more fluid and less chunky. I also realised that most circular gazebos only have 6 sides, I didn’t mind that mine had 8, and I felt that it didn’t make it look bad, so I kept it at 8, but I think that definitely was the reason why the roof looked very messy and a bit chaotic when I tried to split it the same amount.
I ended up adding another layer to the base, as I thought the roof looked too big compared to the bottom. I think it evened it out very well, and I was happy with the way the roof looked, I definitely think reducing the number of splits in the roof was a good idea.
Adding the second tier of the roof, I think, definitely makes the shape of the gazebo look more even and grand, which was what I had planned.
Making the roof was a lot more frustrating and time consuming than I thought. There was a lot of trial-and-error involved. Ideally, I would’ve wanted to add tiles to the roof, but I ended up spending way too much time trying to figure out how to actually do that.