Prada Aoyama Store

Herzog & de Meuron, Tokio, Japan, 2003

Scale: 1:100
Materials: acrylic, cardboard, paper
Type: facade, study, volumetric
Detail: 5/7
Student: Alexandre Galiotto, FS25

A 1:100 study model of Herzog & de Meuron's Prada Aoyama store in Tokyo, representing the building's distinctive pentagonal prismatic volume wrapped entirely in a diamond-grid facade of convex curved panels. The facade is rendered in translucent or reflective acrylic panels set within a dark linear grid framework — laser-cut cardboard — that faithfully reproduces the characteristic bulging glass-cell pattern across all five faces, including the inclined roof plane. The model foregrounds surface texture and the overall massing of the facade system rather than interior program or structural detail, with small human-scale figures confirming the 1:100 ratio.

How it's made — RAPLAB

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