Residential and Industrial Comparison Model for Knoxx

A scale model for events agency Knoxx that sets a green residential district beside an industrial one, built straight from brief to finished model.

Client: Knoxx
Service: Scale Models
Approach: Straight to print, art directed as we built

Brief us on a model

Size of the model, as confirmed with the client: 1100 x 525 mm
Time from go-ahead to collection: 2 weeks
Districts side by side, residential and industrial: 2

What we brought

What we can do
We make two kinds of city easy to tell apart
Residential blocks with roof gardens on one side; factories, chimneys and trucks on the other.
How we look after you
We keep you in the loop when time is short
With no time for a digital mock-up, our designer directed the art as we built and sent progress for feedback.
What you get
Your model is ready on the agreed day
Complete and ready on the agreed collection day, with every building, vehicle and tree in place.

Gallery

The whole project at a glance. Drag or swipe to browse; tap a picture to enlarge it.

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The finished piece
The residential district, roof gardens and all.
Factories and chimneys across the road.
An industrial street lined with trucks.
The residential streets from above.
A roof garden, planter by planter.
Smoke rising from the factory chimneys.
A dig site, down to the diggers.
A mobile crane at work by the flats.
Traffic lights, fences and parked cars.
The briefTwo districts, one model.
FabricationFactory sheds printed with every window.
Tankers and trailers at the same scale.
Build & assemblyVehicles waiting at the edge to go in.
Roof gardens going on, block by block.

The build

How we built it

4 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 4

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we built a comparison scale model for events agency Knoxx: a residential district beside an industrial one. The timeline was tight, so we went straight from the go-ahead to sourcing and printing, without a digital mock-up.

The whole model on the bench: industrial streets with sheds and trucks on the left, residential blocks with green roofs on the right — Two districts, one model.

Fabrication

Step 2 of 4

Every building, chimney and vehicle was 3D printed in white, from factory sheds with their window frames to tanker trucks and trailers. Our designer directed the art as the pieces came off the printers.

Close-up of printed white factory sheds with arched roofs, rows of framed windows and open loading bays — Factory sheds printed with every window.

Printed tanker trucks, a flatbed trailer and a skip on a grey yard in the industrial district — Tankers and trailers at the same scale.

Build & assembly

Step 3 of 4

The buildings were set out on black roads and grey pavements, then the greenery went on: grassed roof gardens, lawns and trees. Smoke went on the chimneys and the vehicles took their places, with progress sent to the client for feedback.

The industrial district mid-build: chimneys still without smoke, and loose printed vehicles waiting on the edge of the board beside tweezers — Vehicles waiting at the edge to go in.

Residential blocks with freshly grassed roofs, loose flecks of green still scattered on the roads between them — Roof gardens going on, block by block.

The final build

Step 4 of 4

The finished model sets the two districts side by side: towers with roof gardens and a crane at work on one side, factories, smoking chimneys and streets full of trucks on the other.