Zinc Mine Museum

Peter Zumthor, Sauda, Norway, 2003

Scale: 1:50
Materials: cardboard, fabric, paint, pla, plaster, pva glue, wood
Type: structural
Detail: 6/7
Student: Raphael Beutler, FS26

A 1:50 study model of Peter Zumthor's Zinc Mine Museum depicting a fragment of the building — a stone masonry base surmounted by a dark, textured upper volume carried on a slender steel frame with diagonal bracing and a corrugated roof canopy. The base is built from cast plaster, the steel frame is rendered in dark-painted wood, and the enclosed upper volume has a rough, darkened surface with small punched openings. The model foregrounds the tectonic contrast between the heavy, layered masonry plinth and the lightweight industrial steel-and-panel construction above, consistent with Zumthor's phenomenological approach to material differentiation.

How it's made — RAPLAB

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