3D print the David and Gladys Wright House
A free, printable model of Frank Lloyd Wright's David and Gladys Wright House, with the open ground and road around it in Phoenix, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the David and Gladys Wright House
In Phoenix's Arcadia neighborhood, at 5212 East Exeter Boulevard, stands a house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son David and David's wife, Gladys. Built between 1950 and 1952, it follows an organic style. Once the 2010s arrived, it counted among four surviving Wright buildings in Phoenix and nine across Arizona. The National Register of Historic Places lists its main house.
The main house is a curved concrete structure that sits on seven piers and is reached by a spiraling ramp. Its plan sweeps through 270 degrees around an inner courtyard. Orange trees filled the area at the time, and Wright wanted the couple to see over them. The pier design also lets breezes pass through the building.
Mostly rectangular concrete blocks, hollow and filled with pumice, make up the facade, with rounded blocks for the piers. Gaps that Wright left between the blocks produce a contrast of light and dark. The outer wall follows a circular arc with a radius of 23 m (77 ft). A second ramp leads up to the roof deck, from which Wright hoped the couple would take in the desert and Camelback Mountain nearby. Inside are three bedrooms and four bathrooms in 2,553 square feet (237.2 m²).
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 2 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 2 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 3 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Thin ramp and slim piers
- The spiral ramp and roof edge are thin curved bands, and the house rests on a few slim piers. Print friendly adapts thin parts to the print scale; a larger print keeps more of the curves.
- One piece with the ground
- The David and Gladys Wright House is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The David and Gladys Wright House takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The David and Gladys Wright House is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a David and Gladys Wright House STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The David and Gladys Wright House grows with the print: about 2 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
