Student LEGO™ enthusiasts have taken a constructive interest in the Dana Porter Library recently, building a scale model of the Library as part of their larger project to build a LEGO™ model of the entire University of Waterloo campus.
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UW LEGO™ Initiative members Christine Ambre and Ivan Yu with their scale model of the Dana Porter Library. Photo: Simon Wilson |
The Porter Library is the second building on campus (after Math) to be constructed by the UW Lego Initiative and was recently highlighted in the current issue of Waterloo magazine.
The model itself only took one day to construct, however, the finished product is the result of over a month’s work of observing, scaling, designing, and constructing by five members of the group.
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Photo: Simon Wilson |
Henry Shew, one of the group’s current executives, remarks that the most time-consuming aspect was ordering the lego pieces and waiting for them to arrive.
When asked why the group elected to build Porter, Henry was quick to note the landmark importance of Porter. “DP is very significant on the Waterloo campus,” Shew says. “It’s the first thing you see when you’re in the city, driving toward the university.”
Porter’s prominence and unique look has made it a campus icon over the decades and has frequently inspired other creative works. In the past year alone, Porter has also been a muse to a student artist, Ryan Felix, who made a photographic transformation and merger of the building with the Davis Centre Library, as well as to over one hundred individuals who took part in Library Day events in October and doodled their own versions of the structure.
The Porter LEGO™ model created by the UW Lego Initiative is currently on display in Porter. You'll find it behind the glass window at the Graphics Copy Centre across from the Browsers Café.
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