Zürich City

The twelve Kreise

At 81 metres to the millimetre this is a street-scale relief: the Uetliberg rises on one side, the Zürichberg on the other, and the Limmat runs between them through the numbered Kreise. For anyone who lives in the city it is a strange and immediate object, because the hills you cycle up every day are suddenly something you can hold at once. The same twelve districts, in black and white and framed rather than cut, are what redmark.art sells as art.

What a child works out

• Cities have topography, and it decides where the expensive streets are.
• The numbered districts are not arbitrary — follow the river and the hills.
• The scale of a map changes what it can tell you.

The plate

Pieces

12 pieces

Plate

250 × 176 mm

B5 — the size of a school exercise book.

Scale

1 mm ≈ 81 m

How much ground one millimetre of plate covers.

Vertical exaggeration

× 0.69

Height is compressed here — the terrain is dramatic enough at this scale that true height would not fit the plate.

Thickness

8.8 mm

Smallest piece

261 mm²

Nothing is cut smaller than a child can pick up.

Fit

0.35 mm clearance

Printed in place, so every piece seats first time without sanding.

Material

PLA, printed in Switzerland

Every named piece

• 1
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9