SAGRADA FAMILIA DOUBLE TWIST COLUMNS

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Please also LIKE if you download, collect, or remix this thing. These stone columns were designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí over 100 years ago for the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona. The columns were not constructed until the 1980s. These columns were the very first use of CNC machinery for making architectural elements of a building. It would have likely taken years to make each column by hand. The CNC equipment took 3 months to make each column in the 80's. Today, new technology can produce them in as little as 3 weeks. https://blog.sagradafamilia.org/en/specialists/double-twist-columns/ This was my experiment in recreating the columns in CAD. The columns have straight flutes increasing in number along the height. Yet the shape is generated with a series of double helical profiles. The Inventor and STEP files are full scale! The STL files are 1/100 scale and can be printed on most 3D printers. They can be printed with infill or in vase mode to save time and filament. I hope you enjoy them.