MOC: Frauenkirche Dresden - Architecture Scale

[Rolli]

Hi all!

About 6 weeks ago the 10th Eurobricks Event took place and with it a little Architecture competition was held: One had to build and bring a sight from his home country.

I chose to build the Frauenkirche in Dresden, a church that is well-known but also has some complicated features that offered a little challenge. It was destroyed during World War II and famously rebuilt after the reunification of Germany, finishing in 2005 and now probably being the most famous church in the northeast of Germany. I always loved it for its geometry and history and when I visited Dresden a couple of years ago I was quite taken by it which made the choice easy.

This was the first MOC for which I used the help of virtual bricks to recreate the shape and the angles in the most exact way possible. It was quite a challenge for me as I never used anything like it before but I soon realised that for things like this it is way more effective than actually sitting in front of a pile of bricks. It was also the only option to actually get something done as I had no bricks at hand at all until I would fly home to Germany a week before the event.

Therefor I spent the 4 weeks before my flight stacking bricks inside my Mac, slowly improving the MOC by using all the possible reference material I was able to require, making use of photographs, scale models, architectural drawings and even Google Earth. Once finished I suddenly realised that out of the roughly 3000 parts that I used in the model about 200 weren't in production and another 40 would cost me as much as the rest of the parts (who would have known the rarity of travis bricks in tan??) For example I had used 1x2 curved slopes as they recreated the shape of the dome perfectly and 1x3 tiles in tan as well, both parts that were never made.. In the end I was able to get around all that and ordered everything necessary, finally having time for stuff like exams or hand-ins for college In the end it took take me another week at home to eventually finish the model.

Front:

Back:

The real thing - not my photo:

This build won me a first place in the Architecture competition and a rather lovely Marina Bay Sands Many thanks to CopMike and Bonaparte for organising the event and the competition, to Whitefang for bringing the prize over, to Aredhel and Legopard for some helpful criticism and to all the eventees that made the evening such a great one and the competition so strong!

I would never have thought to win this one after seeing all the other amazing entries. Please consider checking them out in this nice summary!

Other entrees that were posted already:

Bryggen by L@go

Cologne Cathedral by Aredhel

Holmenkollbakken by Cecilie

Royal Albert Hall by Rufus & Pandora

Water Tower by Redhead1982

I hope you like it. Comments and critique are of course appreciated. Thanks for your time!

[ManInATopHat]

Very impressive, and congratulations on winning first prize! Well deserved. Extremely realistic, and lovely shape and parts usage. The colours really mesh together without clashing. Very well done!

[L@go]

I'd say your time was well spent, considering how amazing the end result is. It was nice to see this up close. You definitely deserved both the praise and the prize :)

[Calanon]

Easily one of my favourite builds - it is absolutely gorgeous.

[Legogal]

Ditto! It looks wonderful in real bricks, too. Congrats on such a fine build and winning the contest. It was indeed a blast watching the entrants describe their builds.

The way you went about designing it was an amazing story, too. Way to go!

[eurotrash]

You've done a great job with those complex angles. It looks magnificent!

[jimmynick]

Very nice! The anti-studs around the base of the dome are cool, as are the trans-blue tiles set inside the arches for those lovely windows.

[Cecilie]

That dome is so gorgeous :wub:

[robuko]

Congratulations. It's a great MOC of a sensational building. Your dome solution is innovative and looks fantastic.

[harton]

Simply awesome, one of the best entries I've seen for this. The scale is perfect for the details that are showed. Well done.

[Spencer_R]

This is quite wonderful.

[HenrikLego]

Magnificent. Truly great build. The use of parts to show of the details of the building is very well done. The color combinations is also very nice!

[Kristel]

Congratulations! This is just stunning, and amazing how much detail you have been able to incorporate.

[henrysunset]

Top notch construction, really captures the essence of the building in a small-scale model. Great work!

(I added it to my Architecture board on Pinterest to help more people find it. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/514606694894508386/ )

[Rolli]

Thanks guys for all the kind words!

(I added it to my Architecture board on Pinterest to help more people find it. http://www.pinterest...06694894508386/ )

Thank you, very nice of you! And finally someone else who uses pinterest! :)

[mechamike]

Very nicely built Rolli, and a well deserved win in the competition!