3D print the Elbphilharmonie
A free, printable model of the Elbphilharmonie, a tall block with a wavy roofline at the tip of a peninsula, surrounded by water and nearby buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Elbphilharmonie
The Elbphilharmonie, nicknamed Elphi by many, is a concert hall in Hamburg, Germany. It stands in HafenCity, on the Elbe River's Grasbrook peninsula, and its name means "Elbe Philharmonic Hall". Its form has been likened to a raised sail, a wave, an iceberg or a quartz crystal, set above an old brick warehouse called Kaispeicher A, near the historical Speicherstadt. At a final height of 108 meters (354 ft), it is Hamburg's tallest inhabited building.
The project began as a private initiative by a married couple: Alexander Gérard, an architect and real estate developer, and Jana Marko, an art historian. They commissioned the first design from the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. A glassy superstructure with a wavy roof line rests on its own foundation above the retained brick facade. Around a thousand of its windows are curved glass, and it has 26 floors, of which the lowest eight are inside the brick facade. The Plaza, a public observation deck on the 8th floor, gives a view over Hamburg and the Elbe River.
Inside are three concert venues, the largest being the Great Concert Hall, which holds 2,100 people, with the performers in the center and the audience around them in vineyard style. Yasuhisa Toyota designed the acoustics, using roughly 10,000 drywall plates that were each microshaped on their own to scatter sound waves, and the hall has a pipe organ with 69 registers. The Recital Hall seats 550 and the Kaistudio 170. The official inauguration on January 11, 2017 featured concerts by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra along with a light show.
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 | 31 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 39 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 49 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Sweeping wave roofline
- The roofline sweeps up and down in smooth wave shapes. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep these curves smooth, and Print friendly adapts the thinnest edges to the print scale.
- Rows of small windows
- The tall walls carry rows of small window marks. A bigger print size keeps more of them, and Full detail keeps every one, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- One piece with the ground
- The Elbphilharmonie 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 Elbphilharmonie 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 Elbphilharmonie 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 an Elbphilharmonie 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 Elbphilharmonie grows with the print: about 31 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.
