
How to build the largest layout of the world
• How to build the largest layout of the world
Moscow continues to work on the new layout of the city, which should be completed in 2017 and will be the largest in the world - its area is 950 square meters. A small portion of the layout is ready and on display in one of the pavilions of ENEA. Moscow finished layout will include areas within the Third Ring and Sparrow hot area with high-rise industrial area and MSU "Zil".

Today we take a look at the exhibition Exhibition Center and see how Moscow create a layout in the workshop.
At the finished part of the layout (area of only 70 square meters), which is exposed at ENEA, represented by the center of Moscow in the range Boulevard ring.
The architectural layout is performed on a scale of 1: 400. All the buildings are reconstructed freestanding, with an elaborated four facades. On buildings can be considered cladding, window frames, architraves, cornices.

The river also looks very natural - if water dimply. This effect is obtained thanks to the adhesive composition, which is applied to strokes of plexiglass.
because of the abundance of architectural elements, as well as the building of the Historical Museum on Red Square because of the difficult terrain of facades -

According to experts, modelers, the most time-consuming for them to become objects of skyscraper on Tinkers embankment.

on the layout has a team of 80 artists, architects, graphic artists, and students of architectural and graphic colleges. They prepare drawings of buildings, creating terrain, cut plastic models, paint the house, spend the backlight. Layout collected from the "squares", each of which is numbered.


Direct installation ( "Box") building on the layout. The complexity of the installation is that the model buildings are placed on urban real underlying cause: each hill or lowland in the city is reflected in the layout.


Adapting buildings for relief.

Who knows the high-rise?

Yaroslavl station in anticipation of installation in its place on the layout.

The building at the Paveletskaya station.

One of Stalin's skyscrapers - the hotel "Leningrad".

The bridge across the Moscow River Illuminated roadway. Inside a lot of electricians, but visitors will only see the glow of the road.


Switching wiring. Each building on the model highlighted and can be switched on separately - only need to enter the address. Masters are also working on a street lighting system. On major transport arteries of the city (vyletnyh highways, the Garden Ring, etc.) will be "installed" lights cool white light for the roadway, and yellow - to the pedestrian. Size used in the lamp LED - 1x1 mm.


Installation of cars on the layout.

The trees made of wire and decorate with special filings. On the model, as in the real city, will


Creating a layout of Moscow. Photo by Igor Kurushina
Finished trees placed on the layout - on the streets and in parks. After mounting and powdering green spaces do final cleaning of streets vacuum.

The model is updated as development of the city. All the objects that will be built by 2017, will be constructed and installed on a breadboard. After 2017, the layout will be regularly updated to reflect the buildings under construction.
