AIC Studio, day 22. Today, Tim Samuelson and I published the first of our 3D scans taken from the work of renowned architect and “father of modernism” Louis H. Sullivan. Tim and I are working on a 3D printed/printable architectural reference book titled “Sullivan Before Thirty, The Young Man in Architecture.”
Download the scan here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:375833
The piece we shared via Thingverse today is a scan from a terracotta ornament originally part of the Barbe House built by Adler and Sullivan in 1884 at 32nd and Prairie Avenue in Chicago, IL. It was demolished in 1963.
It was scanned using a Next Engine 3D scanner at the School of the Art Institute’s Advanced Output Center last summer and cleaned up in Geomagic and Netfabb. The images in this post show it printed on a Makerbot Replicator Dual at 0.2mm in white PLA at approximately life size.
Tim and I will be publishing further scans over the next twelve months as we work towards a final prototype of our book scheduled for publication in early 2015.