Due to the intricate nature of the plates and tensile structure we opted to laser cut the parts from 1mm thick acrylic, this would ensure that we got exact copies of each component and would be easier than cutting them by hand at this size. At a scale of 1:20 this scaled up perfectly to the 20mm thick plate drawn on the architects drawings. As the data was taken from our CAD drawing I used this as the data for the illustrator file for the laser cutting. I had to place a piece of acrylic under the sheet material as a sacrificial piece so that we didnt lose all the tiny pieces I had cut out. Fur the assembly I used the 1:1 drawing I had produced of the model to ensure that I was glueing the parts together at the correct angles for the correct locations on the building.