How to fit Geneva in a room

To help urban planners and architects in their choices, Geneva’s city planning department has been mapping the architectural landscape of the city into a miniature model of the city. After 30 years of work, it’s being shown to the public for the first time. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) With several new neighbourhoods planned, Geneva’s architectural landscape keeps changing. To help planners and architects visualise their projects in a three dimensional space and in the context of existing buildings, the city’s planning department, has, since 1984, been meticulously translating every new project into a 1:500 model made, for the most part, out of wood. According to the scale, every metre on a building in Geneva maps to 2mm on the model. All features on the model – except the Hans Wilsdorf Bridge over the Arve River, which was shaped by a 3D printer – were painstakingly created by hand, mainly using lime wood. Like a rather large puzzle, the complete model of the city now consists of 145 …
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