3D print Torre Velasca
A free, printable model of Torre Velasca and the surrounding streets and buildings of central Milan, generated from real map data in your browser.
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Torre Velasca in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 106 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 29 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
106 m of Torre Velasca, 29 mm on your shelf
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.
- Tall tower, crisp edges
A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps the vertical edges of a tall tower crisp, and a larger print size keeps more facade detail. Print friendly suits small prints; printing slowly with cooling helps the top.
- One piece with the ground
Torre Velasca 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. Torre Velasca 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 Torre Velasca
Torre Velasca is a skyscraper in the heart of Milan, Italy. It stands between via Larga and corso di Porta Romana, close to the Duomo and to the University of Milan's headquarters. The tower has 26 stories and is 106 meters (348 ft) tall to the roof. The BBPR architectural partnership built it in the 1950s; it was finished in 1958 and inaugurated in 1961. Among Italian buildings it is a rare example of post-rationalist brutalist architecture.
Its mushroom-like profile is easy to pick out on the Milan skyline. The lower floors are narrower and the upper floors wider, a shape that recalls the medieval fortresses and towers of the Lombard tradition. BBPR first envisioned a skyscraper built entirely of steel and glass, but abandoned the idea because of the cost of the materials and the limits of national production at the time. Instead they used reinforced concrete clad in stone. The engineer Arturo Danusso, based in Turin, collaborated on the design. Construction lasted 292 days.
When it was completed, Torre Velasca was controversial with architectural critics and the Milanese public alike. Because of its heavy concrete silhouette and overhang, people nicknamed it "il grattacielo con le bretelle", meaning "the skyscraper with braces". In 1961 the National Institute of Architecture gave BBPR its Regional Award for Lombardy, and since 2011 the tower has been protected as a historic building.
About this model
Torre Velasca is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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