Laser-cut architectural concept model for Mitch Teh

A laser-cut plywood block of flats, cut open to show furnished rooms, with a coloured wheeled frame lifting three amenity platforms on pulleys.

Client: Mitch Teh
Service: Scale Models
Delivered: A finished concept model of the whole idea

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Floors of flats, cut open down one side: 9
Amenity platforms that move up and down: 3
Pulley towers on the wheeled frame: 2
Fabrication time, after design approval: 5 to 7 weeks

What we brought

Our own laser
We cut every floor, wall and panel on our own laser
Every floor plate, wall, facade panel and deck came off our laser, so the repeating floors match top to bottom.
One studio, start to finish
One studio, from cut files to the finished model
We made the cut files, then cut, primed, painted and assembled it in-house, with furniture, figures and 3D printed details.
Clear inside and out
Your idea is clear inside and out
The cut-open side shows the homes and the frame shows the shared facilities, so anyone sees how the concept works.

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The finished piece
The frame beside the flats it serves.
From the left, the plywood stairs and balconies.
The playground platform, hung from its pulley crane.
A garden platform, raised up the building.
Frame, bracing and figures floor by floor.
The covered platform and the wheeled base below.
The briefCut open to show nine floors of flats.
FabricationLaser-cut plywood floors, matching top to bottom.
Build and assemblyThe painted frame, bracing and figures in place.

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 this architectural concept model for Mitch Teh: a laser-cut plywood block of flats behind a coloured frame on wheels. It had to show the homes and how the frame lifts shared facilities by pulley.

The model from the side, the plywood block cut open to show nine floors of furnished flats, with the green and red frame and grey pulley tower on its wheels beside it — Cut open to show nine floors of flats.

Fabrication

Step 2 of 4

We drew the cut files, then cut every floor plate, room wall, facade panel and deck from thin plywood, so the repeating floors match top to bottom. Details the laser could not reach were 3D printed.

View along the corridor between the plywood flats and the green frame, a scale figure standing in the corridor — Laser-cut plywood floors, matching top to bottom.

Build and assembly

Step 3 of 4

We stacked the plywood floors into the block of flats, primed and painted the structural frame and set it on the wheeled base, then fitted the pulley towers, yellow platforms, white furniture and scale figures.

Close-up of the red diagonal bracing and green frame in front of the plywood flats, with a grey lattice tower, yellow platforms and white scale figures on the floors — The painted frame, bracing and figures in place.

The final build

Step 4 of 4

Nine floors of raw plywood flats, furnished in white, stand behind a red, green and grey frame whose two pulley towers carry three yellow platforms.

The finished model at an angle from the right, showing the furnished plywood flats beside the coloured frame, its three yellow platforms and the wheeled base — The frame beside the flats it serves.

The details

The idea is told in the small parts: the platforms, the pulleys and the figures.

Close-up of the yellow playground platform with a white tower and slide, scale figures on the deck, the grey pulley crane above and the red bracing behind — The playground platform, hung from its pulley crane.

The yellow garden platform with planters, scale figures and a white folded canopy, on the grey lattice tower in front of the green frame — A garden platform, raised up the building.

The green frame against the plywood building, red diagonal bracing and a small yellow platform, with scale figures on several floors — Frame, bracing and figures floor by floor.

The covered platform under a white frame with a striped roof, beside the red bracing, with the grey wheels of the base below — The covered platform and the wheeled base below.

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Laser-cut architectural concept model for Mitch Teh

What we brought

We cut every floor, wall and panel on our own laser

One studio, from cut files to the finished model

Your idea is clear inside and out

Gallery