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Architectural Scale Model of Belfast

Working with the Forum for Alternative Belfast Fab Lab and Belfast City Council processes were developed to assist the group of architects in building a scale model of Belfast.

A 3d model of the city centre was drawn and process of how to create the buildings was experimented with using Fab Lab technology.

It was decided that the best and most workable results were achieved by slicing each of the virtual 3D buildings into series of 2D shapes so that they could be laser cut from 6mm Baltic birch plywood and reassembled back to form a wooden model of the particular building.

FabLab House

The Fab Lab House is a self-sufficient dwelling produced to take part in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 competition by a consortium of organizations and companies led by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT and the Global Fab Lab Network. The objective is to design an integral solar house with the technologies of our time, which will generate maximum resources with minimum investment. A house built for people, committed to creating the city, and connected with the whole world. Welcome to the Fab Lab House.