Esben Kolind Posted February 1 Posted February 1 Tietgenkollegiet (English: Tietgen Student Hall) is a student residence located in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Completed in 2006, it was designed by Danish architects Lundgaard & Tranberg and features 360 rooms in a circular shape. My LEGO version of Tietgenkollegiet is 106 x 106 studs in size. It was on display in the shop window of the BR toy store on the main pedestrian street in Copenhagen for two months over Christmas 2024. Additional images can be found in very high resolution in this Flickr folder. Pictures from the building process can be seen on my Instagram account. The location of the building on Google Maps and angled aerial photos can be seen here. The below image is taken directly above the model and shows the perfect circular structure, with the common areas protruding like cubes in the inner yard of the complex. Experimenting with the light sources during the photo session yielded this "sunset" picture with clear shadows. It gives a realistic feel to the model. The building has about 400 micro LED lights attached to the ceiling of all floors, both in the apartments on the outside and the corridors on the inside. A detailed view through the elevator columns to the inner yard. The house numbers are custom printed on profile bricks. The common areas on the inside of the building The building is constructed on a standard LEGO train track circle on four 48x48 baseplates. The diameter of the track circle, the 64 different "directions" combined with a floor height of ten plates (a 1x2x3 window + 1 plate for the floor) turned out to match the true proportions almost exactly. I found some of the architectural drawings online, and they were a big help during the design phase. Finally some reference pictures: Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed the model and the post and I welcome any comments. Best regards, Esben Quote
Feuer Zug Posted February 3 Posted February 3 Lovely recreation of this interesting building. The railroad tracks for the base is ingenious. Detail wise, you captured it well for the shaping. Brick on! Quote
Toastie Posted February 4 Posted February 4 This is simply next level (++) building ... wonderful. I really love how you put your creation into context - people everywhere, the convex outside naturally different from the concave inside, the lighting on the inside and the bright light outside - I can watch the photographs forever ... ... and then the LEGO "replica" - 400 LEDs, the light is perfectly matching the original. Wow. You just "created" another reason why I like the northern part of Europe so much - beginning about 30 km south from the Danish/German border :D All the best and thank you so much for sharing! Thorsten Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Wow you have perfectly recreated the student environment: aggregation, study, accommodation ...I just love it! Perfect architecture and atmosphere miraculously recreated, thanks also to the numerous lights! Quote
hugore Posted February 7 Posted February 7 That is f***ing amazing! This is proper microscale :P Quote
Anio Posted February 8 Posted February 8 Very nice and clever build. I love it. I would be interested in seeing more of the techniques you used. The dark green circle in the middle, the internal structure of the building, or the various "cells" on the facades for example. Quote
Esben Kolind Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 Hi all, Thank you for the comments, I am really happy that you like the model. Anio asked for some more images of the different techniques, so I have included some pictures I took during the building and design process. The green circle in the center is made from 24 identical pieces attached on hinge plates kept in position by clips/bars/"erling" via the octagonal plate i the centre. The cells and the micro LED wire used for the lights. Simply attached to the underside of the ceiling by 1x2 plates. SNOT bricks in every cell to hold the brown 2x4 tiles. Since everything is "off grid" due to the use of the train tracks at the bottom, it is necessary to connect the columns for every second floor using flex tubes for stability reasons. This picture also shows how every second column is 4 studs wide all the way through, while every second column narrows to 3 studs on the inside using lots of jumper plates. The cubes on the inside do not follow the curvature of the columns, but are attached using bars and "erling" to get the right spacing. The last picture shows how the building is built in 5 heavy blocks and the elevator sections in between are free standing (and somewhat fragile) Esben Quote
TheLegoDr Posted February 10 Posted February 10 I am most impressed. Wow! Copying the real building would be a feat, but you accomplished it. The proportions are spot on. And the building techniques to accomplish it are brilliant. Quote
ExeSandbox Posted February 15 Posted February 15 This is peak LEGO I love how every brick is clearly recognizable while managing to capture the real life building almost perfectly. Fantastic work! Quote
Withacee Posted February 28 Posted February 28 This looks absolutely smashing! Very attractive and realistic build, and the building techniques used are brilliant. A great display piece! That must have been quite the puzzle to get it right. Keep clicking those bricks together! Quote
domik Posted March 12 Posted March 12 It looks incredible! Is the grass in the middle just lying around or attached to somewhere? Quote
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