Create the Gingerbread City
Please read the following steps and download all the files from the linked words.
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Step 1:
Choose the plot you'd like from the masterplan. The city is tiered this year. Please refer to the masterplan for the elevation changes. Step 2:
Then click on the corresponding category below (A, B, C, or D) to purchase your plot and please take note of the specifications to the right of the image. Step 3:
Once you've chosen your plot please read the additional information at the bottom of this page. Please download the CAD plan , sketch up model that indicates levels, and the Gingerbread City Information Document. We will also be supplying you with a base and LED lights for your plot. Happy baking! |
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Plot Categories
Illustrations by Gilles and Cecilie Studio
Why Participate?
- As an The money you spend on Gingerbread City Plots will go directly towards the organisaton and running costs of Gingerbread City as well as supporting the development of our programming for people working in the built environment. See here for more details.
- You and your practice get invitations to the opening event on Tuesday 5 December from 5:00pm - 8:30pm
- Every member of your practice and their family gets free entry to the exhibition
- Over 16,000 people visited Gingerbread City last year and this is an opportunity to show Londoners how creative you can be. There were quite a few people taking notes of practice names while they walked around.
- We had great press coverage last year and you could end up in Time Out, a national newspaper such as The Sunday Telegraph, and all over blogs and instagram. Just search gingerbread city to see.
- It is a great way for the office to finish the year in a fun and creative way.
- You'll help MoA achieve its mission of helping the public better engage with architecture.
Gingerbread City Info
About the City
The masterplan for the 2017 Museum of Architecture Gingerbread City is based around 4 different city ‘quarters’ each with a strong and distinctive character and designed to help make the residents healthy and happy. Or as healthy as they can be with so much sugar around! There are lots of hills, rivers and bridges in the city that help the residents stay healthy as they walk around the town between schools, offices, factories, museums shops, parks and their homes. There are also areas for power generation, waste and transport interchanges.
For the full brief of the areas please click here.
Plots
Baking
Details
The masterplan for the 2017 Museum of Architecture Gingerbread City is based around 4 different city ‘quarters’ each with a strong and distinctive character and designed to help make the residents healthy and happy. Or as healthy as they can be with so much sugar around! There are lots of hills, rivers and bridges in the city that help the residents stay healthy as they walk around the town between schools, offices, factories, museums shops, parks and their homes. There are also areas for power generation, waste and transport interchanges.
For the full brief of the areas please click here.
Plots
- Once you have bought a plot, you will receive a CAD file from us with the outline of the building boundary and plot boundary as well as a masterplan brief.
- We are providing the bases this year for your gingerbread plot. You will need to collect your Gingerbread City base from the Tibbalds date TBD. The base will have a pre-made hole to allow for LED lighting to go inside. Please do not block this hole.
Baking
- Structural strength will be important so we recommend practicing! We encourage you to research and test your own recipes for creating your gingerbread pieces. As a guide the recipe here should create a mix that is structurally strong. We suggest using a gingerbread recipe that is crisp and hard and not cake-like. The more cake-like your gingerbread building is, the more likely it will collapse. Avoid using baking soda in the recipe as this can make the biscuits softer and lighter. You can also work with a local bakery to bake the gingerbread for you, just remind them it should not be cake like but hard and crisp.
- You are able to use internal support if needed, but it must not be visible from the outside. The gingerbread building must be made to look completely edible and last the entire 17 days of the exhibition.
- We advise not to stack gingerbread on top of gingerbread or gingerbread on top candy for support. It will not be able to support the weight for the duration of the exhibition.
- We advise not to use jelly as it will go moldy.
- Boiled sweets make excellent window panes and look beautiful when lit up.
Details
- To develop the unique character of the City, all designs should be specific to the Gingerbread City and not plagiarised from elsewhere. There will be awards for the most original, creative and interesting designs. We look forward to seeing some truly experimental designs!
- Please save the date of Tuesday 5 December for the opening event from 5:00pm - 8:30pm.
- Please drop off your Gingerbread Buildings to 27 Thurloe Street from 1pm to 6pm on Monday 4 December.
- For enquiries about Gingerbread City, please contact: melissa@museumofarchitecture.org.