Testing the scale of the main window. The shape of the LEGO arched elements define the scale of the window.
Other sizes have to correspondent to the size of the main window.
Testing the scale of the main window. The shape of the LEGO arched elements define the scale of the window.
Other sizes have to correspondent to the size of the main window.
This floor plan helped a lot cause it shows windows and walls.
Such a plan also helps to find the right location for the main columns.
The beginning. The scale was defined by the arched bricks.
I also used this sheer plan to work out the dimensions and relations.
SNOT was used to build the facade – simply stacking bricks on each other whould have been to easy :-]
The tower grows. It is helpful to build the outer facade, the window and the inside parallel.
A real challenge: the old structure in tower "E".
Sometime a tan part was needed.
Building the inside needed some planing.
The lower church is finished. Slowly everything grows. At this stage I didn't know if the main columns should be 3 or 4 studs wide. In the end they became 3 studs wide.
The column design is fixed so let's go on with the inside structure.
It's tricky inside. No right angles at this stage …
The columns are growing. It's very helpful to build all eight columns in parallel to not forget how it was done with the first one.
Two weeks before 1000steine-Land in Berlin event the church looked like this.
The Inner Dome was build using a quarter of a shere with tiles on top. I just had to add another layer of bricks on top of this shere and remove the whole structure later.
To build the Dome I used a kind of "mold" build with LEGO bricks to get the proportions right.
After 300 hours of work between March and August 2006 the Frauenkirche was finished and presented to the public in Berlin.
Building instructions and part lists
There are no building instructions und part lists available for the models shown on this web site. There are no engineering drawings available. To build the LEGO models only photographs from the real prototypes were used. All models are unique and not for sale.