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. You will soon receive the CAD Plan, sketch up model, and Masterplan Document. We will also be supplying you with a recipe, base and LED lights for your plot. Happy baking! |
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Plot Categories
Illustrations by Gilles and Cecilie Studio
Why Participate?
- The funds spent 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 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, as well as showcase your work in a leading museum such as the V&A.
- The exhibition had great press coverage last year and your work 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
Architects and designers participating in this year's edition of the exhibition are encouraged to think about design approaches that are inclusive, sustainable and easy for the gingerbread residents and visitors alike to navigate. Urban agriculture is encouraged wherever possible, with green roofs visible throughout the city. A central, integrated movement corridor connects the key landmarks and green spaces within the city, and comprises a contemporary landscaped ‘high line’ that allows for light rail, pedestrians and cyclists to travel in a safe and stimulating environment. The buildings throughout the city will encourage a mix of uses and will be experimental with new architectural styles and materials and modern construction methods.
Plots
Baking
Details
Architects and designers participating in this year's edition of the exhibition are encouraged to think about design approaches that are inclusive, sustainable and easy for the gingerbread residents and visitors alike to navigate. Urban agriculture is encouraged wherever possible, with green roofs visible throughout the city. A central, integrated movement corridor connects the key landmarks and green spaces within the city, and comprises a contemporary landscaped ‘high line’ that allows for light rail, pedestrians and cyclists to travel in a safe and stimulating environment. The buildings throughout the city will encourage a mix of uses and will be experimental with new architectural styles and materials and modern construction methods.
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 and LED lights this year for your gingerbread plot. You will need to collect your Gingerbread City base from Tibbalds office, date TBD. The base will have a pre-made hole to allow for LED lighting to go inside. You will need to position the lighting through the 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!
- Built gingerbread buildings will need to be delivered to the V&A museum on Monday, 3 December 2018. Further information about the delivery will follow shortly.
- For enquiries about Gingerbread City, please contact: melissa@museumofarchitecture.org.