3D print Tempe Center for the Arts
A free, printable model of Tempe Center for the Arts, its large folded roof over a rounded building, and the park, lake and paths around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Tempe Center for the Arts
Tempe Center for the Arts is a publicly owned arts center for the performing and visual arts in Tempe, Arizona. Inside are a gallery of 3,500 square feet, a studio theater with 200 seats and a proscenium theater with 600 seats. The Lakeside Room, with seating for 200, looks out over Tempe Town Lake. In 1998 a citizens group and city leaders began discussing the idea of an arts center, and two years later residents approved it by backing a sales tax of one-tenth of a percent, Proposition 400, to fund its development, construction and operation.
That funding measure secured $2.7 million for the park next door and $63 million for the center itself. The city hired the management company Kitchell CEM to run a three-phase design competition, leading to a design team being chosen in 2000. The building's designers were Architekton, based in Tempe, and Barton Myers Associates, based in Los Angeles. Ground was broken on April 22, 2003, and the opening, planned for spring 2006, slipped because the roof proved a larger undertaking than expected. Construction finished in August 2007, and the grand opening took place on September 9, 2007.
The roof is a set of complex, geometrically folded plates, visible from the surrounding freeways and from Tempe Town Lake, a man-made lake that sits in the Salt River's natural watercourse next to the site. Environmental designer Ned Kahn set 8,000 marbles and tiny mirrors into the entrance, giving the marquee a shimmering, sunlit effect. Five public art pieces are part of the design.
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 | 8 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 13 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A faceted, folded roof
- The roof is made of many triangular folded plates. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the creases crisp, and Print friendly adapts the finest folds to the print scale.
- An angular entry canopy
- A small angular canopy projects at one corner of the building. Full detail keeps it on a larger print, while Print friendly may simplify it.
- One piece with the ground
- Tempe Center for the Arts 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. Tempe Center for the Arts 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
Tempe Center for the Arts 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 Tempe Center for the Arts 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. Tempe Center for the Arts grows with the print: about 8 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.
