Now featured in our Downtown LA retail store and online at Archinect Outpost, these miniature building materials will make your other office mates jealous.
The team at Mini Materials have created scaled construction toys that not only look amazing but are functional just like their life size counterparts. A perfect desk accessory or a neat gift for the building fanatic in your life, Mini Materials creates a wonderful take on making construction materials available and accessible for all to enjoy.
Made of actual concrete and brick materials, these miniature building pieces look and feel like the real thing. Available in an assortment of sizes and material types building enthusiasts can purchase cinder blocks, bricks, lumber, even a mini jersey barrier.
The founders of Mini Materials started their venture in 2015 after noticing that "the world was lacking realistic versions of the most common building materials used today." Wanting to create a product that isn't only fun but also a great teaching tool, Mini Materials enables individuals to play and build at the comfort of their own desk.
Since opening on June 15th, Archinect Outpost, our online and retail store in Downtown Los Angeles, has exclusively been a purveyor of architectural periodicals and monographs. However, we've recently added a small selection of curated items that will charm the architectural enthusiast. In case you've missed it, check out Part 1 and Part 2 of our 2019 Archinect gift guide for more gift ideas this holiday season.
If you're in the LA area, make sure to swing by our holiday party at Archinect Outpost this Saturday, December 15th from 11-3, for drinks, snacks, music, and sales!
Archinect Outpost is located at 900 E 4th St, in the heart of Downtown LA's Arts District.
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Both the CMU (cinder blocks!!?? C'mon Archinect, you should know better) and the brick are noted as the same scale 1:6 in the image captions. Were they modeled off extra large bricks, or extra small CMUs?
caption says 1:12 on the CMU
They changed it after I posted my comment. Sucks the scale isn't the same, now I have to go elsewhere to build a tiny brick veneer with CMU backup wall.
^ Nevermind, I noticed they have same scale options on the Mini Materials website. https://www.minimaterials.com/
Correct.
Cinder block is to concrete masonry unit what blueprints are to drawings.
I didn't want to say this elsewhere, 'cause they're so cool and A'nect is great for having them.
One more thing: are the lengths of tiny rebar included, or extra?
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I want to do something like this with my own ashes.
OMG this is an excellent idea.
https://www.minimaterials.com/collections/molds
no shipping outside of Trumpkanistan? Boo urns.
Bricks on order!
Mortar?
And they came today! I am thrilled. They really are convincing.
They also bring back memories. I was once a brick palletizer, a job that meant entering a large dome kiln, climbing a mound of hot bricks, and passing them down to stack on a pallet. I lasted about a week.
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