Generated from the same geometry the printer is handed — the plate seen from directly above. It cannot show the relief, which is the part you have to hold.
Canton Zürich
Twelve districts around the lake
This is the canton the workshop is in. At this scale the terrain that structures daily life is all legible: the Albis ridge separating the Sihl valley from the lake, the Glatt valley running northeast towards the Rhine, the moraine hills left by the glacier that dug the lake in the first place. Most people who live here have never seen its shape as a whole object.
What a child works out
- Where the lake came from — a glacier's shape is still in the ground.
- Districts are drawn around valleys and ridges more often than around towns.
- Your commute has a topography.
The plate
- Pieces
- 12 pieces
- Plate
- 176 × 250 mm
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 305 m
- Vertical exaggeration
- × 0.7
- Thickness
- 8.8 mm
- Smallest piece
- 634 mm²
- Fit
- 0.35 mm clearance
- Material
- PLA, printed in Switzerland
B5 — the size of a school exercise book.
How much ground one millimetre of plate covers.
Height is compressed here — the terrain is dramatic enough at this scale that true height would not fit the plate.
Nothing is cut smaller than a child can pick up.
Printed in place, so every piece seats first time without sanding.
Every named piece
- Affoltern
- Andelfingen
- Bülach
- Dielsdorf
- Dietikon
- Hinwil
- Horgen
- Meilen
- Pfäffikon
- Uster
- Winterthur
- Zürich
Zoom in, zoom out
A piece of each of these is the subject of the next one. Each plate is redrawn at its own scale, so it is a real map at every level rather than an enlargement of the one above.
Follow the borders — World to continent to country to canton to city district
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In development
Land of Sky
Forty-three townships around Asheville
The most pieces of any plate in the collection, at a scale where you can find the road you live on.
- Pieces
- 43 pieces
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 522 m
- Suitable for
- Ages 8 and up
- Price
- CHF 120.00
Ticino
Eight districts on the sunny side of the Alps
Bellinzona, Locarno, Lugano, Mendrisio, Blenio, Leventina, Riviera, Vallemaggia — eight pieces, all mountain.
- Pieces
- 8 pieces
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 387 m
- Suitable for
- Ages 6 and up
- Price
- CHF 120.00
Zürich City
The twelve Kreise
The city districts at 81 metres to the millimetre — the finest scale in the collection.
- Pieces
- 12 pieces
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 81 m
- Suitable for
- Ages 7 and up
- Price
- CHF 120.00