3D print Esplanade ? Theatres on the Bay
A free, printable model of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, two rounded lattice-covered domes beside the water, with a wide road and a park nearby, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Esplanade ? Theatres on the Bay
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay serves Singapore as a center for the performing arts, in the Downtown Core, close to the mouth of the Singapore River. It takes its name from the nearby Esplanade Park and is nicknamed "The Durian". Two rounded structures make up the complex: one holds a concert hall seating about 1,600, and the other holds a theater for about 2,000. The concert hall's pipe organ has 4,740 pipes and 61 stops, and Johannes Klais Orgelbau designed and built it.
Two firms worked together on the design: DP Architects, based in Singapore, and Michael Wilford & Partners of London, which dropped out in May 1995. The building has two rounded space frames carrying triangulated glass elements and sunshades, balancing views outward against shade from the sun. Over 7,000 triangular aluminum sunshades cover the two circular glass shells and look somewhat like spikes on the halves of a durian. The architects said the shape was not meant to be a fruit; it came from what they found the most interesting way to do sunshades.
Planning began in 1992, and the project cost about SGD 600 million. Work officially began on August 11, 1996, on ground once occupied by the Satay Club. The center was completed in February 2001 and officially opened on October 12, 2002, by S. R. Nathan, who was President of Singapore at the time. The 117th IOC Session had its opening ceremony there on July 5, 2005.
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 | 14 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 17 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 22 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Lattice-covered shells
- Both domes are covered by a triangular lattice of thin ribs. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps every rib, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Slender posts under the rims
- Thin posts carry the lower rims of the domes. Printing slowly and using layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm helps these slim parts come out clean.
- One piece with the ground
- Esplanade ? Theatres on the Bay 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. Esplanade ? Theatres on the Bay 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
Esplanade ? Theatres on the Bay 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 Esplanade ? Theatres on the Bay 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. Esplanade ? Theatres on the Bay grows with the print: about 14 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.
