3D print Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium
A free, printable model of the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha, a bowl ringed by white petals above an open colonnade, among the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 40 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 12 mm
- Scale
- 1:4,063
40 m of Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, 12 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 650 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Petals with hard edges
A ring of twisted petals crowns the bowl, each with a crisp leading edge and a peak that leans the same way as its neighbors. They are thin shells, so a larger print or Full detail keeps the edges from rounding off.
- Colonnade under the roof
A two-storey run of round columns carries the walkway slab beneath the petals, with the wall set well back. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the columns and the recessed shadow behind them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium 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. Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium 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 Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium serves both soccer and rugby union in Gqeberha, a city in South Africa's Eastern Cape. It was one of three coastal stadiums built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and it held matches in that tournament, including the third-place playoff. Chippa United Football Club plays there, and the rugby union team Southern Kings used it before.
The name comes from the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, the district the stadium stands in, and that district in turn takes its name from Nelson Mandela, who served as the first president of South Africa. Its roof is a ring of white petals that makes the building look like a flower, and from that comes the nickname the Protea. The building reaches approximately 40 m in height, with six levels on the west side and five on the north, south and east stands.
It seats 46,000, and another 4,000 places were fitted temporarily for the World Cup. Seat colors run from light orange through to dark red, scattered as though at random; the mix helps the ground look full and makes both sun-fade and replacement seats harder to spot. Inside there are 49 hospitality suites, plus a gymnasium, two business lounges and rooms for lectures and functions. The ground rose on the site once occupied by the old Parks Rugby Club and Prince Alfred Park, at a cost of about R2 billion, roughly US$159 million.
About this model
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium 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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