3D print the Navajo Nation Council Chamber
A free, printable model of the Navajo Nation Council Chamber, with the roads and open ground around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Navajo Nation Council Chamber
The Navajo Nation Council Chamber serves as the seat of government for the Navajo Nation, and its building stands in Window Rock, Arizona. The building is notable for its tie to the New Deal of the 1930s and the shift in federal policy toward Native Americans that the Indian Reorganization Act established. The National Historic Landmark designation came in 2004. It is described as the one legislative headquarters in the country that a tribe owns and has used continuously, and whose design draws on indigenous materials and on architectural traditions linked to Navajo heritage.
John Collier, the United States commissioner for Indian affairs, chose the site in 1933. Construction took place in 1934–35, paid for by the Public Works Administration. The New York City firm Mayers Murray & Phillip, known for its Mission Revival architecture, was the designer. The chamber lies south of Tribal Hill Road, within a campus of Navajo Nation government facilities, and has a view of the stone arch that gives Window Rock its name.
Two levels of red sandstone, chosen to blend with the sandstone formations around it, make up the structure. Its octagonal plan is meant to call to mind a monumental hogan, the traditional Navajo building form. Ponderosa pine vigas fan outward to the stone buttresses, and heavy wooden timbers form the lintels and trim. Facing east, a traditional Navajo orientation, the main entrance opens into one large chamber.
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 | 3 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 4 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Beams past the buttresses
- Slim log beams reach out past the eight corner buttresses. Print friendly adapts these small parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- A low, compact building
- The octagon is low and small in the area. A larger print size keeps the beam ends, buttresses and windows, and 0.12–0.16 mm layers keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Navajo Nation Council Chamber 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 Navajo Nation Council Chamber 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 Navajo Nation Council Chamber 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 Navajo Nation Council Chamber 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 Navajo Nation Council Chamber 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.
