Quarry No.8: Book Mountain

DnA, Lishui, China, 2022

Scale: 1:100
Materials: plywood
Type: interior
Detail: 4/7
Student: NG Ho Ning Hayden, HS25

A 1:100 study model of DnA's Book Mountain project carved into a stacked-plywood quarry mass, presenting a sectional view of the excavated interior landscape. The model is built from CNC-cut plywood layers laminated to form a stepped, mountain-like topography, with a hollowed quarry void revealing the inserted building structures — multi-story volumes with articulated glazing grids, staircases, railings, and white figurines. The technique foregrounds the relationship between the striated rock-face geology and the inhabited architectural intervention nested within it.

How it's made — RAPLAB

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