3D print Taliesin West
A free, printable model of Taliesin West, a low complex of connected buildings with grid-patterned roofs and a small pool, with open ground around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 2 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
2 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.
- Grid roofs of thin beams
Several roofs are open grids of thin beams. Print friendly adapts such thin parts to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best on a larger print with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Low and wide
The complex is low and wide, so a larger print gives its walls, roofs and courtyards more presence.
- One piece with the ground
Taliesin West 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. Taliesin West 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 Taliesin West
Taliesin West is a studio and home that the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright developed in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. The name comes from Taliesin, Wright's studio in Spring Green, Wisconsin. From 1937 until he died in 1959, it was where Wright spent his winters and worked in his studio. The nonprofit Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has its headquarters there. Taliesin West holds National Historic Landmark and World Heritage Site designations.
In 1935 Wright and his Taliesin Fellowship started wintering in Arizona, traveling from Wisconsin, and in 1937 he purchased land in the McDowell Mountains. Apprentices pitched a temporary camp on it and put up the first structures between 1938 and 1941. The land cost $8.6/ha ($3.50 per acre), and the site was inexpensive in particular because no groundwater was known there. Wright spent $10,000 on a well, more than the land had cost. The estate lies in a gully at the foot of the McDowell Mountains, about 490 m (1,600 ft) above sea level.
The structures follow a 45-degree grid, linked by courtyards and walkways. Walls of desert masonry, made from local rocks mixed with concrete, were originally covered with wood-and-canvas roofs, and interiors repeat triangles, hexagons and natural motifs. The main building holds a drafting room, a kitchen, a dining room, a garden court and the Wright family's home. Other spaces include a kiva room, two venues for performances and a cottage. Some boulders on the grounds bear petroglyphs made by the Hohokam people.
About this model
Taliesin West is one of more than 4,300 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.
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