Ticino House

Unknown, Bellinzona, Switzerland, 1970

Scale: 1:50
Materials: foamcore, plaster, plywood, wood
Type: structural
Detail: 5/7
Student: Berit Schumann, FS24

The 1:50 study model for a project titled 'Ticino House': the first state depicts the full building volume — a multi-story rendered masonry house with a pitched roof, punched square windows, a ground-floor arched opening, and a roughly textured plaster base representing rubble stonework. The second state is an exploded structural detail model showing a plaster wall/column element supporting three cantilevered floor-ceiling assemblies made from fine timber slats. Together, the pair of images foregrounds the tectonic relationship between a stone substructure, a plaster structural core, and a timber floor system.

How it's made — RAPLAB

Laser cutter — tutorial ↗
PDF export for laser cutting — tutorial ↗
Digital Workshop ↗
Casting Workshop ↗
Casting plaster — tutorial ↗
Plaster — tutorial ↗
Wood Workshop ↗
Sawing — tutorial ↗
Adhesives — tutorial ↗