Recovery of Merola's Tower

Carles Enrich Studio, Puig-reig, Spain, 2019

Scale: 1:50
Materials: acrylic
Type: structural
Detail: 5/7
Student: Lily Mae Van den Bosch, FS24

A 1:50 study model juxtaposing the ruined masonry shell of Merola's Tower — cast in plaster with visible brick-course texture and deliberately ragged broken edges — against a finely assembled timber structural framework of columns, floor beams, cross-braced bays, and stair elements inserted into its interior face. Two materials (plaster and wood, annotated in the detail photograph) are used to articulate the dialectic between the historic fabric and the new structural intervention. The model foregrounds the tectonic logic of the new structure and its relationship to the surviving ruin rather than enclosure or finish.

How it's made — RAPLAB

Laser cutter — tutorial ↗
PDF export for laser cutting — tutorial ↗
Digital Workshop ↗