Producing a scalable model of Helsinki as a constellation of key projects – a starting point for a new city in the spirit of Piranesi’s Scenographia Campo Marzio.

Each student produced 3 duplicates in cast bronze of a miniature key project in Helsinki.

This whole process took place in house at the Kulttuurisauna starting with the project research and developing the first positive models.  The other stages of this project are: build final positive model, make rubber mould, pour positive wax models, sprue the wax model, build the kiln, preparation for casting, cast the model in “massa”, burn out wax model, fire up the kiln, cast the bronze miniatures, coldwork, assembly, documentation.

Workshop was organised by Kulttuurisauna, Helsinki with students from Carleton Architecture University Canada.

The Forging of the Sampo by Akseli Gallen-Kallela