The Fallingwater Frank Lloyd Wright by Lego

It has everything. Trees, snow, rocks, and of course, the waterfall and the projections that made her famous ever since Frank Lloyd Wright designed it in the ’30s. This model of the Fallingwater House was built by Matija Grguric, an architecture student fond of Lego as a child.
Say little about it and the House of Cascada (Fallingwater House), considered the masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright and a true icon in the history of the architecture. Built in 1939 as the weekend residence of J. Edgar Kaufmann, the house is the ultimate form of integration between architecture and nature. Wright could not merge over the house with their environment, a forest of southern Pennsylvania, put the house on Bear Run Creek, and was designed as a balance impossible overhangs on the actual waterfall.
The architecture student Matija Grguric, great fan of Lego since childhood, began to build this model of the famous house in September 2009, at an approximate scale of 1:40. He chose the winter landscape, and Lego pieces in different colors has been recreated stone walls, terrain, vegetation … After seven months, a number of unexpected collapses, and more than 15,000 pieces of Lego, this model that weighs more than 20 kg will be presented in the Technical Museum in Zagreb, during the “Kockice EXPO 2010″ from May to June this year.
Matija Grguric is an architecture student from Zagreb, Croatia. His first Lego came into his hands at age 4, and since then has always been his favorite toy. Today, at 27, is a great collector of colored bricks, and already has more than 230,000. This is his second major model, previously had recreated the Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier.