Queensland Art Gallery

Robin Gibson, Brisbane, Australia, 1982

Scale: 1:50
Materials: paper-pulp
Type: structural
Detail: 3/7
Student: Vita Attrill, HS24

A 1:50 paper-pulp study model of Robin Gibson's Queensland Art Gallery depicting a colonnaded section of the building's exterior arcade. Formed entirely from hand-worked paper-pulp, the model renders repeated cylindrical columns, stacked horizontal spandrel bands with corrugated surface texture, a rhythmic series of angled roof fins, and a gridded paving base with contrasting dark infill panels. The model foregrounds the building's structural cadence and surface modelling rather than its full volumetric extent or interior organisation.

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