A building, a monument, an entire city, rebuilt brick by brick. A piece you can walk around, examine closely, point at — and that stops people in their tracks.
Free feasibility study from your plans or photographs.
The finesse of a model depends less on the hours spent than on the number of different parts available. A cornice, a Roman roof tile, a Corinthian capital: each has its own reference. We hold 118,000 of them in the workshop: if your cornice exists somewhere, it is in our trays.
Every project draws on a stock sorted piece by piece. When a shape is missing, we go and find it — we don't substitute an approximation.
Minifigure scale for detail and inhabitability, micro-scale to take in a whole district at a glance. The choice follows what the piece has to say.
On a heritage project, every building is validated against the sources, in dialogue with your curators. The model has to hold up in front of an archaeologist.
Everything starts as a digital model. You sign off volume, colours and layout before the first piece is laid.
Depending on what the piece has to do, it isn't built the same way — or priced the same way.
What does your model have to do?
Whether you want to sell a development, explain a territory, tell a story or mark a brand, the piece is not built the same way.
A buyer walking around a model imagines living there. A 3D render on a screen, far less. Sales suite, trade show, head-office lobby or foundation-stone ceremony: the model keeps working long after handover.
Letting people touch what may not be touched. A model brings a monument down to a child's height, makes a vanished city legible at a glance, and gives access that no display case allows.
A model shows; a diorama tells. An inhabited scene with figures, lighting and a precise moment: the format that explains a farming sector, an industrial process or a historical episode without a line of text.
A data centre, a transformer, a dam, the fit-out of a truck: what makes your value sits inside a building or behind a panel. A model opens it up and puts it on your stand, where it stops passing traffic better than two hundred screens.
Your logo in three dimensions in the lobby, on an exhibition stand or in a press photograph. An unexpected object that visitors photograph and share without being asked.
Every model can become a participatory build: your teams, visitors or partners construct part of the work, supported by our hosts and guided by our digital plans.
The museum wanted to make a vanished city tangible for family audiences, without a screen. We rebuilt the ancient quarter across 23 m²: the theatre, the odeon, the baths, the forum, the insulae. Every building was validated against archaeological surveys, and part of the construction was opened to the public during the exhibition.
« The model lets us add a layer of information and understanding to subjects the museum covers. »
Arnaud GalliègueCultural interpreter — Lugdunum Museum, Lyon
What our clients have in common: they have something to make understood, and words are no longer enough.
Permanent or temporary display, young-audience interpretation, accessibility. Often funded through patronage or an exhibition budget.
Sales suite, property fair, reception lobby. A tool that outlives the sales campaign and ends up inside the finished building.
Making a territory, an industry or a planning project legible to residents, in public meetings as much as in exhibitions.
Explaining a process, a site or a plant to visitors, clients or candidates, without taking them there.
Four things drive the price: scale, level of detail, whether we build it or your audience does, and the deadline. Our rates are provided on request, within 24 to 48 working hours. We answer on feasibility and a broad range free of charge. Our rates are provided on request, within 24 to 48 working hours.
Allow six to fourteen weeks for a building model, depending on size and detail. A monumental project runs from six months to a year. The limiting factor is not construction but sourcing: some rare parts take time to gather in quantity.
Plans, elevations and photographs are enough in most cases. For a historical reconstruction we work from your surveys, your scholarly publications and alongside your research team. If all you have is photographs, we can work with that too.
Yes. Parts are assembled using structural reinforcement techniques, and fragile elements are designed to be replaceable. For open-access display we offer selective bonding and a protected plinth. We also supply a spare-parts kit.
We design large models in demountable modules with bespoke flight cases. A touring piece has to be planned from the start: tell us at the first conversation, it changes how we build.
Yes, and we do it often. We design the model, then open part of it to your visitors, teams or partners, guided by our digital plans and supported by our hosts. The people who laid pieces come back to see the finished model, and bring others to see it.
You do, on delivery. We keep the right to photograph it and show it in our portfolio, unless otherwise agreed in writing — which we accept readily if your project is confidential.
Yes, and we recommend it for anything above two square metres. On-site assembly is included in the quote, along with levelling, any lighting, and training your team in routine care.
A plan, a photograph, an intention: that is enough for us to tell you whether it can be done, at what cost and in how long.