3D print the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus
A free, printable model of the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus in Istanbul, with the surrounding city walls and streets, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 6 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
6 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Arcade and facade pattern
The arcade and the patterned brick-and-marble facade carry the finest detail. Print friendly adapts the smallest openings to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, best for a larger print or a finer nozzle.
- One piece with the ground
The Palace of the Porphyrogenitus 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 Palace of the Porphyrogenitus 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 the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus
A Byzantine palace from the late 13th or early 14th century, the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus stands in the old city's northwestern quarter of Constantinople, present-day Istanbul, Türkiye. It is an annex of the larger Blachernae palace complex and the best preserved among the city's three surviving Byzantine palaces. It is also among the world's few fairly intact works of late Byzantine secular architecture.
The palace was built in the late 13th or early 14th century, where the Theodosian Walls meet the later walls of Blachernae. It takes its name from Constantine Palaiologos, a son of Michael VIII Palaiologos, not from the 10th-century emperor Constantine VII. The word Porphyrogenitus means “born to the purple,” a child of a reigning emperor. The building served as an imperial residence and also seems to have housed usurpers and emperors in waiting.
The three-story building stood between the inner and outer fortifications. Its ground floor has a four-arched arcade opening onto a courtyard, and the first floor has five large windows looking over it; the top floor projects above the walls and holds an audience hall with windows on all four sides. The facade is decorated with geometric patterns in red brick and white marble. After the Ottoman conquest the building served as a menagerie, a brothel, a pottery workshop and a poorhouse before its restoration as a museum.
About this model
The Palace of the Porphyrogenitus is one of more than 4,400 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.
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