Two industrial scale models for Porcelanosa
Bespoke commission
Architecture, construction and property
Scale models
Manufacturing, Digital modelling and visualisation, Assembly
The project
Porcelanosa commissioned Archicercle to produce two large-format models for its 2017 international exhibition of global architecture and interior design. Together, they were intended to communicate two stages of its operations in Vila-real: the existing facilities and the near-future development of a new wall tile plant.
The model of the existing facilities was made at 1:500, measuring 2.6 × 1.6 m. It represents the factory buildings and their arrangement across the site. Long building volumes, repeated modules and the lines of the roofs define the overall industrial complex.
The new wall tile plant was represented at 1:250, with dimensions of 1.6 × 1.6 m. This second model also addressed the factory interior, with simplified modelling of machinery and portal frames forming part of the studio’s contribution.
The two models therefore approach the commission at different levels of detail: one places the buildings within the wider facilities, while the other includes the arrangement of internal elements in the future plant. Repeated portal frames and small machinery units introduce a different level of detail from the larger volumes of the overall complex.
Archicercle produced both models as exhibition pieces. The project combines a representation of the existing site with a future expansion, using a different scale and format for each.
Processes and materials: fabrication services · available materials · studio machinery.
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