Hillside housing model at 1:400 scale
Architecture, construction and property
Scale models
Design, Technical production preparation, Cutting and fretwork, Assembly
Solid board and paperboard, Acrylic, MDF
The project
A residential scale model exploring the relationship between housing volumes and a mountainside. Archicercle carried out the redesign and integration of the project into the contour layers, alongside the component breakdown, laser cutting and assembly.
The topography is built up from stepped contour layers. White housing volumes sit on this relief, with prismatic forms of varying proportions. Together, they make the position of the buildings legible in relation to changes in ground level.
The adaptation of the project for the model was translated into a component breakdown for fabrication. Laser cutting and assembly gave physical form to both the terrain and the placement of the housing, carrying the redesign and integration work through to the finished model.
The model uses 1 mm Daler board, clear acrylic and MDF. The result combines the stepped terrain with the rectilinear geometry of the buildings, keeping the topography and architecture visually distinct.
Stacked contour layers define the slope on which the residential volumes sit.
Processes and materials: fabrication services · available materials · studio machinery.
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