This first exploration looks complete, but it is only one side of the model which was carefully photographed to hide the other side. With all 5 stories and 2×2 studs per step, we end up with a model which is a little over 20-studs wide. Renewed by my miniaturized success, I set out to finally complete the whole building at a reasonable scale. Only 1/2 completed, but carefully photographed to help the final form emerge. It’s a rougher caricature of the real building, but a nice effort. I started off by building a miniature version of the building with just three stories, and using simple 1×2 inverted bricks for the sloping side supports. While it was initially painful to let go of the detail, I was confident that my ability to re-create the whole building would be really appealing. Unfortunately, I was almost completely out of pieces, and a rough back-of-envelope guess would have placed the completed model at about 500$ in parts, and a large enough model that I’d be lucky to finish it before BrickCon.Īs such, I made a decision to 1/2 the scale, reducing each cube to 2×2 studs. (Thank you to my geometry teacher/mother.) I ended up using a mix of clear and trans-blue for the windows, but the overall effect was pleasing. I kept working at this for a couple evenings, and finally completed a single corner of the building which was actually pretty sturdy thanks to employing a 3/4/5 triangle for the angular bracing “concrete” supports. This scale would allows some nice subtle details to show through. I translated each cube-like step of the form as 4×4 tiled roof sections. My first serious attempt at building the model involved finding some rough cross-sectional drawings of the building and drawing out the shape of each floor on graph paper. Since one of my biggest gripes with the recent book LEGO Architecture: The visual guide is that it only briefly touched on the creative “making of” process for the various sets in the series, I’ve prepared a sneak peek into my creative process in building this model. It took several tries to finalize my design for this building. I’ve actually never visited the building – it caught my attention in exploring popular Brutalist buildings and I was excited to re-create it in LEGO. Ucsd library books windows#While some brutalist designs are dark and feature relatively few windows, this building is flanked on all sides by massive floor to ceiling windows reminiscent of the simpler Modernist buildings of about the same era. It’s a much loved example of Brutalist architecture, a style which celebrates massive, angular forms made of reinforced concrete. Geisel Library (1968) is a large Brutalist-style building on the UCSD campus in San Diego, California by architects Pereira & Associates. Geisel Library (1968) on the campus of University of California, San Diego.
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