Weird and wonderful designs by architects including Zaha Hadid Architects, Madelon Vriesendorp and Sarah Wigglesworth have been installed over the more traditional models of the V&A's architecture gallery, in an exhibition for the London Festival of Architecture.
Paper Castles sees 15 architects and studios create architectural models that imagine the future while reflecting on the past.
OMMX's model Within Reach compresses the space of a suburban house down to a small plot
Paper models are suspended above or perched atop the permanent display cases in the V&A's architecture gallery, allowing each architecture practice's futuristic concept to be viewed in conversation with a historical architecture model.
OMMX, Interrobang, Office S&M, Resolve, Mobile Studio, WUH Architecture, Makespace and PUP architects have also contributed pieces for the show, which was curated by Rory Hyde and Meneesha Kellay. Office S&M's piece imagines a future where the housing crisis produces a crop of ad-hoc extensions
Some practices chose models of their own projects that they felt resonated with historical buildings, while others used Paper Castles as an opportunity to create an entirely new concept.
Hayetsu Architects, founded by Takeshi Hayetsu, presented an inverted model of the Traditional House in the case below. Called Washi House, it's made from wire and washi paper, and shows the house's hidden interior.
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