The architectural model: a tool, a sculptural artifact, a prized possession, and yet in the digital age of BIM and Virtual Reality, perhaps becoming an enigma, a relic for settling dust. And yet, we are still making them. If you imagine that famous photo of earth from space, of every model ever made in a single image, it raises the question - where are they all? Where does the architectural model go to die?
You can envisage a kind of model cemetery, the product of the disenfranchised architect or student - either from a project never realized, or one never started, or the model allowed to collect dust and moved around an office until it’s beyond repair, meeting its end – dramatically and purposefully thrown from a high floor, stripped of its materials for re-use, or placed in the trash pile of a visionary’s lost dreams (or just the actual trash).
