Azuma House

Tadao Ando, Osaka, Japan, 1976

Scale: 1:50
Materials: acrylic, plaster
Type: interior
Detail: 6/7
Student: Daniel Carmona, HS25

A 1:33 section/cutaway model of Tadao Ando's Azuma House, presenting the two-story concrete row house as an open-fronted volume that exposes the central courtyard void, flanking rooms, and the exposed-concrete stair. The primary mass is cast in plaster worked to simulate board-formed concrete — tie holes, horizontal shutter joints, and panel grid lines are all legible — while the structural frame of the openings is represented by slender dark profiles. A white figure standing in the lower-level courtyard reinforces the phenomenological reading of scale and spatial compression for which the building is known.

How it's made — RAPLAB

Laser cutter — tutorial ↗
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Casting plaster — tutorial ↗
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