Description

White 3D-printed corner section of building floor indicating arches.

For their Independent Activity Period, MIT students and architecture professor Larry Sass studied an Italian Renaissance drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi in the MIT Museum collection. Despite the incomplete architectural information available in the drawing, the class recreated the design with computer software. Through historical research and trial and error, the students 3D-printed models of the front of the palace—bringing to fruition, perhaps for the first time, this 500-year-old design.