We used to build
buildings
In 2006, a group of architects traded the building site for the workbench. A building takes years; a model takes weeks — and all of the same care.
Two architects,
one workbench
We met at a Dutch architecture and engineering firm — one of us Dutch, the other Chinese — drawing buildings that took years to become real. Between the first sketch and the ribbon there are years of permits, contractors and compromises; we loved the making and wanted more of it. In 2006 we set up a workbench of our own instead. The first projects came within months; within a year there was a small team, cutting and painting what we used to only draw.
A model at AMOD now goes from your drawings to a crated, finished object in about four weeks — same discipline, same drawings, same architecture, at a scale where one pair of hands controls every detail. Twenty years on, that workbench has travelled further than either of us expected — through Europe, Australia, the US, India, China, Brazil and the Middle East — and into a few unlikely rooms along the way.
Trained on buildings,
fluent in drawings
Architecture graduates
Every owner and project manager holds an architecture degree or above. When you send a section, nobody asks what the hatching means.
Five languages
English, Dutch, Chinese, French, German. Your project manager speaks yours — and the workshop's.
Shanghai, worldwide
One workshop, machines and paint booth under one roof, shipping door-to-door to every continent. Representation in Europe and Australia.
ABS, acrylic, wood
Cut by laser and CNC, assembled by hand, painted with airbrush. Materials chosen to hold their colour and their edges for decades.
From a museum piece of a lost building to a sales model with working streetlights — if it has drawings, we can build it.