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Basler Münster

Johannes von Gmünd, Basel, Switzerland, 1500

Scale: 1:100
Materials: giluform
Type: facade
Detail: 6/7
Student: Hoai Nguyen Duong, FS24

A 1:100 plaster study model of the Basler Münster's west façade, cast in a warm salmon-toned plaster and photographed against a black ground. The model faithfully captures the twin-spire composition, gabled nave frontispiece, and multi-story tower elevations with pointed-arch openings at each level. At close range, the main portal reveals deeply recessed archivolts, Gothic tracery tympanum, flanking lancets with bar tracery, and surface coursing lines indicating the masonry fabric. A white 1:100 figure placed at the portal threshold provides a scale reference.

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