Process

6 min

Why we still build models by hand

Screens are good at checking a design. Card and glue are better at finding one. A note on the white models that fill our Oslo studio.

a model of a house sitting on top of a book

Written in the studio

Every project at Hollin Vey starts with a 1:200 model in white card, usually before a single drawing exists.

The model argues back

A model shows you the shadow at four in the afternoon without asking. It shows a client where the front door really is.

We keep every model. There are 312 on the shelves now.

(02) — More from the journal

Three more notes

Have a site in mind? Let’s walk it together.

Have a site in mind? Let’s walk it together.

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Oslo studio

Tollbugata 24, 0157 Oslo

+47 22 41 90 16

Edinburgh studio

14 Coburg Street, Leith EH6 6ET

+44 131 555 0192

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Sheet 00 / Index · Drawn in Oslo and Leith

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