3D print the National Art Center, Tokyo
A free, printable model of the National Art Center, Tokyo, a wide low building with a wavy front and a cone, with the streets, green space and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the National Art Center, Tokyo
The National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT) is a museum located in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It opened in January 2007 as one of five institutions belonging to the Independent Administrative Institution known as the National Museum of Art. Kisho Kurokawa designed it, and it was the last project he finished before he died in 2007. The land once belonged to the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo.
NACT has no permanent collection, unlike the other national art museums; instead it hosts temporary special exhibitions, including ones organized by public art associations. It is described as an art center, not a museum, because it owns no collection or permanent display. The building has one basement level and four floors above ground. The site covers 30,000 m2, and the building offers roughly 49,830 m2 of floor space. Its six main exhibition rooms sit on the first and second floors, and each covers about 1,000 m2 under ceilings 8 m high.
Kurokawa's design is known for a glass curtain wall facade that ripples like a wave and for the idea of a museum in a forest. Planning began in 1996 and construction in 2002. In June 2003 the name was made official; the building was completed on June 14, 2006, and it opened to the public on January 21, 2007. It was the first national art museum to be built in Japan in thirty years, since the National Museum of Art, Osaka opened in 1977.
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 | 9 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 14 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Wavy glass front
- The front wall curves in waves and is covered in fine horizontal lines. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the curves smooth, and a larger print size keeps the lines distinct.
- Cone and rooftop details
- A tall cone rises on a round base by the curved front, and small boxes sit on the flat roof. Print friendly adapts these small parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them for larger prints.
- 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 National Art Center, Tokyo 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 National Art Center, Tokyo 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 National Art Center, Tokyo 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 National Art Center, Tokyo grows with the print: about 9 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.
