Lego MOCcer: Technical insight into the 157 windows of the model.

Todays post will give you some information on the design of the windows of the scale model of the office as for the outside of the model this is one of the most common and distinctive elements to be seen in/on the walls. In total there are 157 windows in the walls (not counting the glass facade at the entrance and the glass column in the middle of the building). About 140 of these are of the small type I will be telling you about below, the rest of them are somewhat higher (but are have the same construction).

Here you can see a window separated from the walls together with the elements that attach it to the wall. The red bricks are Technic bricks 1 x 2 with 1 hole, which have a 1/2 length pin to which the window parts attach.

The windows are made using the so called SNOT technique, which means "Studs Not On Top", in other words, different from regular Lego building, the bricks are place sideways, causing the studs alto be on the side. Using this method you can have make advantage of the sizes of the Lego bricks that differ when you compare the height of a brick to the width of a brick. In the case of the windows the way I used the bricks resulted in the proportions being close to the windows in the actual building (at least according to the design drawings of the architects).

When you look at how the window is positioned you might notice that the window is slightly moved into the wall by half a stud length, which is possible due to the fact that I decided to have walls that are 2 studs wide as that allows me to color the inside of the walls different from the outside.

Looking at the pieces used to make the windows you can see that the base of the windows consist of 4 1 x 2 plates with one stud (in gray) and a tile 1 x 4 (in white). On top of that there is a construction for the smaller lower glass pieces that are created using the SNOT method of building, that consist of a plate 1 x 2 (in white), a brick 1 x 2 (in trans-clear), 2 plates 1 x 2 (in white), a brick 1 x 2 (in trans-clear) and finally a tile 1 x 2 in white. On top of this there is a plate 1 x 4 and a tile 1 x 4 (both white) which have no real attachment to the rest of the construction and will hopefully stay in place just by friction of the parts around these parts. The layer above that is similar to the small glass pieces with the difference that they are 1 x 4 pieces instead of 1 x 2 pieces. And finally there are 2 white plates 1 x 2 with one stud (in white) on top of that (these are fixed in place by a 2 x 4 plate which is in the wall.