Civic Centre Site Model with Removable Tower

Civic centre site model for a private client

A civic centre site model for a private client, every building at its number of floors, and a new 21-storey tower that lifts out.

Client

A private client

Service

Scale Models

What they got

A site model with a new tower that lifts out

Built from

An aerial view and the client's slides

What we brought

What we can do

We build your site from what you have

We built the site in 3D from an aerial view and two slides naming each building and its floors.

How we look after you

You can show it with and without

The new 21-storey tower lifts out of its socket, so one model shows the site both ways.

What you get

Heights you can compare at a glance

Each building stands at its number of floors, so the new tower reads against its neighbours.

The brief

Step 1 of 5

From: An aerial view, and slides naming each building with its number of floors
The new building: 21 storeys, at the spot the client marked

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we modelled and 3D printed a site model of a civic centre for a private client. They needed to show the area as it stands, and with a new 21-storey building at a marked spot.

Design & fitment

Step 2 of 5

We built the site in 3D from the aerial view and the client's slides, set each building to its number of floors, and made the new tower a separate piece.

Grey render of the site model with three labels marking building heights: 1 level, 9 levels and 21 levels for the new tower — RenderBuilding heights checked in the 3D model.

Fabrication

Step 3 of 5

The base, the roads and the existing buildings were 3D printed in grey as one piece. The new tower was printed on its own, in a darker grey so it stands out.

Close-up of the darker grey tower beside lighter grey blocks, with fine printed lines on the rooftops and the road edges — The darker tower among the printed blocks.

Build and assembly

Step 4 of 5

The tower slots into a socket in the base, so the client can show the site with it and without it.

A hand lowering the dark grey tower into its socket on the grey site model — The tower going into its socket.

The site model without the tower, showing the empty square socket where it stands — The site without the tower.

The final build

Step 5 of 5

The client received a site model that reads at a glance: the looped road, the existing buildings at their real heights, and the new tower, which lifts out.

The grey site model on a white table: a looped road, low blocks at their real heights and a darker grey tower standing in its socket — The finished site with the new tower.

Civic centre site model for a private client