3D print the Turning Torso
A free, printable model of the Turning Torso, its stack of twisting segments and slim steel frame, with the low buildings, water and lawns around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Turning Torso
Completed in 2005 in Malmö, Sweden, the Turning Torso is a residential skyscraper in the neo-futurist style. Santiago Calatrava of Spain, an architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, designed it, and it officially opened on August 27, 2005. The tower sits on the Öresund strait's Swedish side and was built by the cooperative housing association HSB, which owns it. It rises 190 m (620 ft) over 54 stories and holds 147 apartments. Until September 2022, no building in the Nordic region was taller; Karlatornet in Gothenburg then passed it.
The tower grows out of Twisting Torso, a white marble work by Calatrava shaped like a twisting person. In 1999 Johnny Örbäck of HSB Malmö saw it in a brochure and soon traveled to Zurich to ask Calatrava for a residential building based on twisting cubes. The result has nine segments of five-story pentagons, each turned relative to the one below, and the top segment is turned a full 90 degrees clockwise relative to the ground floor. An exterior steel framework supports the vertical core.
Work started in February 2001. The tower was also meant to restore a recognizable skyline to Malmö after the Kockums Crane, used for shipbuilding, was removed in 2002. Before the tower, the city's tallest building was the 86-meter (282 ft) Kronprinsen. Construction costs ran to over twice the initial budget. The Turning Torso won the Gold Emporis Skyscraper Award in 2005, and in 2006 an Austrian skydiver, Felix Baumgartner, parachuted onto it and then jumped off.
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 | 51 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 64 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 81 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Twisting stack of segments
- Each segment turns slightly against the one below, so the outline steps out and in as the tower rises. A layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keeps the twist smooth.
- Slim steel frame
- A thin frame with diagonal braces runs up one side. Print friendly adapts thin parts like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with good cooling.
- One piece with the ground
- The Turning Torso 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 Turning Torso 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 Turning Torso 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 Turning Torso 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 Turning Torso grows with the print: about 51 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.
