“Initially, I do preliminary sketches much like a painter, stacking bricks on each other in a digital environment,” he said.
“I set up the scale, identifying recognisable elements and proportioning the other parts relative to that.”
For his intricate dioramas, such as his model of the Heroes’ Square in Budapest, every piece has to imitate a specific detail.
In “megastructures” such as the tram, imperfections even as small as a tenth of a millimetre could stack up, leading to instability, he said.
“I always compare it to quantum mechanics and gravity: in a smaller scope matter behaves differently than on a grander scale,” he said.
Thus blocks are glued together, an internal frame is added for extra support, and experts are consulted to ensure structural integrity.
Doczy also added some baseplates on its sides to allow people to place their own Lego bricks, which “has always appealed to me, because it allows anyone to express their creativity and transform the sculpture into a community piece”.
