Lantern House Window Parts
Lantern House Window Parts
Architects and engineers are often having to come up with solutions to unique problems. This requires working with a variety of manufactures that can produce repair and replacement parts. A growing number of A/E/C companies ar turning to 3D printing companies for solutions.
0.5 mm
Width of thinnest feature printed
316L Stainless Steel
Production material
1.5 Weeks
Project lead time
One of the most unique facades you’ll ever see.
NYC's Lantern House in Chelsea is one of the most unique facades you'll ever see. The curvature of the building made it difficult for the windows to seal properly and engineers determined that updating the vent catches on the latches would be an effective solution. Because the team needed to test their theory first, Jett 3D produced two versions of the part in durable nylon. One of the designs solved the problem and went into production in stainless steel.
Processes: MJF, DLMS
Materials: PA11 nylon, Stainless Steel 316L
Software: Solidworks, Rhino, Autodesk Netfabb, HP SmartStream