Sky City Architectural Model - 19th Venice Architecture Biennale China Pavilion Models

Technical Parameters:

Way Studio + Tencent Research Institute's "Sky City" Architectural Model

Interpreting QZYMODELS' "Sky City" Model: A Symbiotic Narrative of Exquisite Handcraft and Future Urbanism

The "Sky City" architectural model crafted by QZYMODELS for Way Studio and Tencent Research Institute is far from an ordinary architectural miniature. It is a three-dimensional poem that intertwines exquisite handicraft and the concept of future vertical cities. Every detail tells the team's reverence for "future human habitation" and their pursuit of ultimate craftsmanship.

I. Symbiosis of Materials and Techniques: A Symphony of 3D Printing and Hand Carving

The base of "Sky City" is shaped by high-precision 3D printing technology to create futuristic black irregular structures. These structures are not cold industrial products—craftsmen from QZYMODELS have performed hand polishing and aging treatments on the printed parts, endowing the surface of the black components with a contradictory beauty of "industrial coldness and manual warmth": some areas retain the textural feel of 3D printing, resembling the original texture of future metals; some areas are hand-polished to form a mirror-like reflection, simulating the visual layers of building materials under the dual influence of time and technology.

At the junction of plants and buildings, the value of handicraft is even more prominent. Moss, ferns, and other plants are not simply "placed"; instead, they are hand-shaped and layered by craftsmen, making the plant community present a state of "growing naturally yet fitting the architectural structure". The orientation of each moss plant and the spreading angle of each fern cluster are adjusted by hand, not only simulating the randomness of natural ecology but also coinciding with the functional zoning of the building's vertical space, achieving a craftsmanship realm of "artificial yet natural".

II. Carving of Detail Layers: From Macro Architecture to Micro Ecology

(1) Hand Precision of Architectural Structure

The twisted and stacked vertical tower-like structures in the model are a highlight of handicraft. Craftsmen from QZYMODELS perform hand splicing and calibration on each "building component node" to ensure that the complex three-dimensional structure is "bold yet stable" visually. For example, the stacked discs of some tower structures are only a few millimeters thick, but through hand polishing, they achieve the effect of "smooth edges and uniform gaps between layers", not only restoring the geometric precision of the design drawing but also endowing the model with touchable craftsmanship delicacy.

(2) Hand Narrative of Ecosystem

The "liveliness" of "Sky City" originates from the micro-ecological logic constructed by hand. Craftsmen manually simulate the symbiotic cycle of "water-soil-plant": in the depressions of black building components, they hand-carve miniature "reservoirs" and simulate "vertical water flow" through extremely thin transparent pipelines (hand-assembled); the texture of the soil layer is also shaped by hand, and the gradient of particle thickness and the embedding relationship with plant roots are adjusted by hand, making the "ecological base of future cities" possess the narrativity of real soil on a micro scale.

III. Handcrafted Scene Immersion: Making Future Cities "Perceivable"

To enable the audience to intuitively understand the living and operating scenarios of "vertical cities", QZYMODELS has devoted manual ingenuity to the "scenario-based presentation" of the model. For example, the details simulating "human activities" in the model (although no dolls appear, they imply through manually arranged "living traces"): next to the moss on a certain platform, miniature "tool traces" are manually placed; at the interface of a certain vertical pipeline, "slight dents from wear and tear" are manually polished—these almost "paranoid" manual details turn the "future city" from a concept into a real field that "can be touched and associated with".

When visitors observe closely, they will find that the handicraft of QZYMODELS has long gone beyond the level of "restoring the design"—it is injecting human warmth into the cold future architecture with the temperature of fingertips. The hand-polished component edges, manually arranged plant communities, and hand-created micro-ecological traces together constitute the soul of "Sky City": it is not only an architectural model but also a medium for dialogue between handicraft and future cities, making the "possibilities of vertical cities" tangible in every manual detail.

In short, the "Sky City" model of QZYMODELS is an ultimate declaration of handicraft—it proves that at the junction of technology and art, the delicacy, temperature, and creativity of handicraft are still the core forces that make the "future" land and the "concept" concrete. Every hand-carved detail is the most devout annotation to the "ideal of future human habitation".

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