Do Any English-Speaking Architects Here Use the Word...
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... 'maquette' when describing initial, exploratory models for a project [massing models, etc.]. This is the word used in French for this type of model, and is also used in the English-speaking 3D special effects industry, but I'm not familiar with it in architecture.
Is there a specific term for models made at this stage of the design process? I can't think of one myself.
TIA
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It would be understood by many [I know it!] BUT then it's not the usual word in Architecture...
For small-scale stuff I'd use sketch-model, massing-model, card-model, simple-model, quick-model etc or 'mockup' if it would be at or near full size... or more likely just plain old 'model' to describe these things...
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Cheers, TIG --
Yeah, I know it as well, but I'm thinking more from the 3-D/special effects side of things... I think we should officially adopt it in the English-speaking world. It's really useful!
By the way, there are several shout-outsfor your plug-ins in the book!
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In our office, we would use the same terms as TIG has suggested.
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Not since college back in the late 60s.
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I work in the more "artistic" side of the business and in a multi language setting where English is the common.
So 'maquette' is used because it is more easily recognised by different mother tongues. -
We also use "makett" (spelt that way in Hungarian).
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Never heard that word, but I could start using it.
We use the term "Parti" regularly to describe the Initial Idea/Plan and sometimes I call an initial Model a "Parti Model". That language came from my particular Architecture School - I sometimes get blank stares when speaking to people that graduated from other schools.
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I have to confess that that word is alien to me; even in college, in the 80s - 90s, I never heard it. Study model, massing model are the words I've heard. But, then, while in architecture school I made only 3 models total.
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I know what the word means in its modelling context but dont think I would ever use it in conversation.
I'm asked to make 'massing models' or 'sketch models' at this stage... -
in Spanish the word "Maqueta" was used frequently. Although i went to school in the states and i am more familiar with the term partii, be it a model or a drawing as marvins_dad suggests, as the more common term.
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