Slump Model


Woodbury University Wedge Gallery, 2019



This installation presents a large model at the scale of 1:2. The model is made with modeling techniques and structural logics more commonly found at a smaller scale size, and as such the model’s form collapses and deforms.

The model connect two identical facades of the small and large buidlings of a villa currently under construction in the Yucatán. This new form is fit into the plan of Woodbury University’s Wedge Gallery. Under consideration are tape tectonics, a new architectural resistance, and a revisitation of paper architecture after the digital turn.



Video: SCI-Arc Channel
Funding: Woodbury University
Project Team: Jixun Wen, Julie Riley
Installation Team: Dutra Brown, Jixun Wen, Julie Riley, Tamara Birghoffer
Installation Photos: Marten Elder



  1. Installation View
  2. Installation View, Detail
  3. Installation View, Interior Small
  4. Installation View, Interior Large
  5. Installation View, Detail
  6. Installation View, Detail
  7. Installation View, Detail
  8. Geometry, Slumped
  9. Paper Model, 1:25
  10. Paper Model, 1:10
  11. Paper Model, 1:2
  12. Plan
  13. Corner Elevation
  14. Post-Installation Model

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