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Writers Theater

Jeanne Gang, Glencoe, USA, 2016

Scale: 1:50
Materials: cardboard
Type: facade, structural
Detail: 4/7
Student: Laurine Grützmacher, FS25

A 1:50 study model of Jeanne Gang's Writers Theater depicts the building's two principal levels: a ground-floor colonnade with exposed columns and a recessed entry stair, surmounted by an upper volume wrapped in a dense, diagonally crossed timber fin screen. The model is constructed primarily from laser-cut cardboard forming the characteristic screen facade. A small human figure establishes scale, and the composition foregrounds the interplay between the structural frame and the layered screen enclosure.

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