CityWood Artwork

This framed artwork presents a three-dimensional wooden map sculpture displayed against a soft gray wall. The piece measures approximately square in format and is housed within a simple light-colored wooden frame that echoes the warm tones of the artwork itself. Scanning from the background forward: the deepest layer appears as smooth, pale cream-colored wood representing bodies of water, with a soft, almost bone-white warmth like unbleached linen. Above this foundation, multiple layers of intricately cut wood build upward to create landmasses rendered in warm honey and golden amber tones reminiscent of wildflower honey held to afternoon light. The central and most prominent feature is an elongated vertical peninsula positioned slightly left of center, densely packed with a fine grid pattern suggesting countless streets and city blocks. This central form feels textured like fine corduroy or woven fabric, with countless parallel and perpendicular lines creating rhythmic visual texture. To the left, a narrower landmass runs roughly parallel, similarly dense with urban detail. To the right, a larger, more irregularly shaped landmass spreads across approximately half the composition, featuring varied street patterns that shift from tight grids to more diagonal configurations. Throughout all raised sections, the texture appears precise yet organic, combining the mechanical exactness of laser-cut edges with the natural warmth of wood grain visible across broader surfaces. The lighting arrives gently from the upper left, casting subtle shadows beneath each raised layer that create depth perceptible as soft gradations from light to medium brown. The overall impression conveys warmth, precision, and meditative complexity, inviting extended tactile and visual exploration of the urban patterns translated into this beautiful natural material.

CityWood is a wooden map artwork designed by an architect Hubert Roguski. It is a three dimensional design that combines modern technology with the beauty of wood and craftsmanship. Created from a city data, city streets, water and landscape are represented by separate wooden layers to create depth of the design. Each layer is precisely cut using laser technology, polished with sand paper to provide smooth clean surface and assembled by hand with great attention to the crafting process. Each map has its own personality due to the individual grain of the wood.