Level 1 of 5
The World
Seven continents in one ocean
The whole planet on a B5 plate. Seven pieces lift out of a single sheet of ocean.
7 pieces · 1 mm ≈ 157 km
Collection
Locarno
From the World down to Locarno.
5 plates, each a piece of the one above it, from the World down to this ground. Lift a piece out of one plate and it is the subject of the next.
- 5
- Plates
- 103
- Pieces to lift out
- 673×
- Times closer, top to bottom
- 1
- Ways down
From the whole World to ground you could walk across in an afternoon: the last plate is 673 times closer than the first, and every one of them is a real map at its own scale.
Follow the borders
World → Europe → Switzerland → Ticino → Locarno
A descent cut by the lines people drew. A world is made of continents, a continent of countries, a country of regions, a region of towns — and each one is a plate whose piece becomes the next plate.
- ↓ Lift out Europe · 6× closer
Level 2 of 5
Europe
Forty-five countries at real elevation
The political map, printed on the terrain it was drawn over. Forty-five pieces, from Andorra to Russia's western edge.
29 pieces · 1 mm ≈ 24.7 km
↓ Lift out Switzerland · 16× closer
Level 3 of 5
Switzerland
Twenty-three cantons over the Alps
The cantons, printed at 1 mm to 1.5 km, with the Alps in white and every major lake in blue.
23 pieces · 1 mm ≈ 1.5 km
↓ Lift out Ticino · 4× closer
Level 4 of 5
Ticino
Eight districts on the sunny side of the Alps
Bellinzona, Locarno, Lugano, Mendrisio, Blenio, Leventina, Riviera, Vallemaggia — eight pieces, all mountain.
8 pieces · 1 mm ≈ 387 m
↓ Lift out Locarno · 2× closer
Level 5 of 5
Locarno
Forty comuni above Lake Maggiore
Village-scale, at 233 metres to the millimetre: Ascona, Brissago, Corippo, the whole Verzasca.
36 pieces · 1 mm ≈ 233 m
The plates, printed
Photographs of plates from this collection, as they came off the printer.
