First-year students of the Architecture Department at DSEU Aryabhatta Campus have turned an everyday office object—stapler pins—into an exciting medium for architectural exploration. Under the guidance of faculty members Ar. Salil Dogra and Indrani Bose, students completed a two-week model-making exercise designed to help them understand the fundamentals of form, structure, balance, and spatial composition.
In this hands-on studio activity, students experimented with stacking, bridging, twisting, and interlocking thousands of tiny metal pins to craft complex three-dimensional structures. The results were striking: miniature towers, cantilevers, interconnected volumes, and sculptural forms emerged from their meticulous efforts. The exercise encouraged learners to think beyond conventional materials, pushing them to interpret mass, voids, and geometry with precision and creativity.
Using such an unconventional material demanded patience and structural intuition. Students observed how micro-scale modules could generate macro-scale ideas—mirroring real architectural principles of repetition, aggregation, and stability.
This small yet powerful exercise not only strengthened their understanding of architectural form-making but also nurtured imagination and problem-solving skills—marking an inspiring start to their academic journey in design.
