Client: Urban Creative To be used as a marketing aid, this 1/100 model was made at a relatively large scale to convey the redesign of the site, built to full colour and a high level of detail. Certain sections and cutaways allow views inside the model to demonstrate the redevelopment of the interior spaces.
Client: Foster + Partners Being an icon of Modernist design, this 1/20 model of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house is constructed from aluminium plates in the same manner as a full-sized realisation. The model also features a full-colour, high detail interior decorated to the style of era.
The huge masterplan model is constructed from striking illuminated blocks, but the offsite detail, ocean and surrounding areas of the 1: 1250 model are represented by a huge aerial photograph incorporated into the baseboard. The Tripoli model is one of the more striking masterplan models we have made, in part due to its size and unique baseboard. Typically we would use hand-finished hardwood blocks and veneering techniques to represent the offsite features, since wood has a good natural finish after being taken to a certain grade of sandpaper and requires no further treatment. It also provides a good contrast to the central scheme, which may be representing in more contemporary materials and methods such as 3D printing, polished acrylic or metals such as brass and aluminium. A masterplan model need not be huge. While big models have an undeniable impact, small models can be just as communicative and have an…
This stylised presentation model, made at 1:25 scale, was created as a tool for Urban Splash. It was developed for display in their sales suite as a marketing tool for the luxury Lakeshore Apartments south of Bristol. The model splits into two separate units, allowing a better view of the interior spaces.
Client: Camenzind This 1/1000 model, is deceptively small. Delicate vacforms and hand-shaped blocks of acrylic were used to create the main central scheme, barely a hundred millimeters across. The zoning of the trees by deciduous and evergreen is a prominent design feature of the masterplan. A digital flythrough can be viewed here.
Client: International Design Group Unusually for a 1:1000, simple model, this proposed scheme for Vasilevsky Island in Moscow contains details down to fractions of a milimeter, including laser-etched columns barely a hair's width.
Opal acrylic was used on this model to diffuse an internal light source for Weston Williamson Architects' Holocaust Memorial design.
Client: Foster + Partners Full colour and at a high level of detail, this model was made before Amalgam had access to laser-cutting processes, and the acrylic and veneer had to be meticulously cut and scribed by hand.
Client: BMT Defence Services This full-detail model of the MASTIFF for BMT Defence Services includes detail down to rivets and shutlines on small electrical components. Models with this level of detail are rare, since most are illustrative and do not require a literal approach. No CAD or technical drawings were provided for this model, other than a hobbyists' kit from which to pull approximate dimensions. All the CAD was built up from scratch in 2D and 3D design programs; the multi-faceted bonnet and chassis presented a particular challenge, due to their oblique angles and meeting points. The model includes a flocked and textured base, cast rubber wheels and a speckled paintjob on the soldier's clothing to achieve a camoflage pattern.
Client: EDF Following on from the success of the L.E.D. Energy House, EDF commissioned us to make three smaller, stripped-down demonstration houses for transportation around the country. These models were designed to be simpler and more illustrative featuring polycarbonate cases which doubled as walls and ceilings. While the chasing L.E.D.s on the larger models were set in channels behind tinted acrylic, in these models they were set behind white acrylic, making them invisible when switched off and diffusing through the plastic when switched on. These compact and portable displays proved highly successful and before long we had produced a total of nine models for EDF stationed at various points around the country.