017 Stone House

Herzog & de Meuron, Tavole, Italy, 1982

Scale: 1:500
Materials: cardboard, pva glue, sand
Type: landscape
Detail: 3/7
Student: Veronica Giunti, Chiara Biolcati Rinaldi, FS26

A 1:500 site model of Herzog & de Meuron's Stone House depicting a sloped topographic landscape rendered in cardboard covered with PVA glue and sand, with tightly spaced contour ridges to articulate the terrain. A small, undetailed cubic volume sits at the crest of the slope, representing the building mass. The model foregrounds the relationship between architecture and landscape at a territorial scale, treating the built form as subordinate to the topographic condition. Material uniformity reinforces a phenomenological reading of the site as a continuous geological surface.

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