by bradipao
1:1000 scale 3D printed model of Mausoleum of Hadrian (now Castel Santangelo) located in Rome, Italy.
Printer Brand:
Tiertime
Printer:
Up300
Rafts:
Yes
Supports:
Yes
Resolution:
0.2mm
Notes:
Printed with Tiertime Cetus 3D, no heat bed, manual calibration.
external view
internal view
Hadrianeum : the Mausoleum of Hadrian
The Mausoleum of Hadrian, today known as Castel Sant'Angelo, was initially the tomb of emperor Hadrian and his family. In the last centuries of western roman empire it was converted in military fortress, then in a castle and is now a museum. It was built on the Tiber between AD 134 and 139 by Hadrian himself inspired by the nearby Mausoleum of August. His ashes were placed inside it in AD 138. Last emperor of his family to be deposed here was Caracalla in AD 217.
The 3D model can be assembled without glue and then easily disassembled to inspect the interior, since it reproduces both internal and external volumes.
Externally it is basically a cube surmounted by a cylinder containing a garden and another small cylinder.
In order to see the interiors, internal volumes have been reproduced in negative, so that empty spaces appears as solid (and filled volumes are void): on ground level there is corridor with a hall, the an ascending spiral starts and after 360 degrees an elevated corridor goes to the burial room, in the center of the building at the base of a sort of tower inside the cylinder. Two other rooms are above the burial room, the one at the top inside the upper cylinder placed in the middle of the garden.
The model is in 1:1000 scale and most of its sizes are still measurable today, because cube, cylinder at the base and internal rooms are still in place. There are uncertainties about height of cylinder at the base (and so slope of the garden), about shape of upper cylinder (it could be a cube) and about access to upper rooms (corridors and stairs), because no remnant is clearly present.
