In the beginning stages I sketched each building as top view orthographics, within those I seperated the larger sections of the building and numbered each piece. After planning the three large masses, I then used a combonation of street view in Google Maps in order to seperate the numbered masses into side view orthographics, and seperating smaller sections into letters. 

For each planned piece I then found measurements using Google Maps for width and length, and used a Google Earth calculation to discover each height. When deciding the scale, I chose a 1:360 model, since the professor wanted a model as large as we could go while fitting within the constraints of the laser cutter.

Using the planned orthographics I created foldable and floorplan templates for each piece using Adobe Illustrator. I then created paper and tape prototypes of each building to make sure all of my pieces fit together, and make final edits before laser cutting. After completing the laser cut each piece was aligned with a template, then scored, folded and temporarily taped to make sure each piece fits before the final assembly process begun.