Architectural Scale Model of a Modernist Plaza, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

A detailed architectural maquette captures a modernist complex in miniature — concrete plinth, glazed curtain wall facade, a small sculpture on its pedestal, and miniature trees arranged around an open plaza. The model is both a planning tool and a finished object: every material decision is already present in sand-toned board and fine metal grid. Scale compresses the building to something you can hold in your eye at once, which full-scale architecture never allows.