So I’m thinking about making a scale model of the WTC, and I go surfing about the net, trying to find out how big the buildings were. Height’s no problem, but the footprint size of them seem’s to be tricky. Every site I’ve been to simply states that they had an acre’s worth of rentable space on each floor, but nothing on the total area, including elevator shafts, structural supports, facade, etc. Anyone know?
Appears that they were 209 feet on a side.
From here: http://dwp.bigplanet.com/engineers/nss-folder/download/WTC2.doc
I don’t know what to tell you on the elevator shafts, but the majority of structural support (perhaps all, I’m not certain) was carried by the load-bearing exterior “skin.” Inside, the floor plans were extremely open.
You can find a floor plan at:
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbc-drawing.cgi/World_Trade_Center.html/World_Trade_Tower.gbd
And loads of info, particularly photos from many angles at that site:
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/World_Trade_Center.html
Well, so much for that idea. If I built it to the scale I wanted to, the damn thing’s would be 14 ft. high!
Well, so much for that idea. If I built it to the scale I wanted to, the damn thing’s would be 14 ft. high!
There is a (cheesy) model on ebay at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2112382911
But the photo at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2110529411
is more interesting.
Simply unbelieveable.
You can buy that piece of junk at any one of the fifteen thousand immigrant-owned New York giftshops in Times Square for like 6 bucks. He makes a big deal about “No Reserve” on the page, but so what? He has a built-in profit on his opening bid!
I almost bought one at K&R’s Rock America about a year ago, but that’s just because I had to meet Mujibur and Sirajul. 
Thanks for looking, Violet, but that’s really not what I’m after. (And this is probably going to sound really tacky, but what the hell.) I wanted to build a stereo cabinet, and I couldn’t think of any designs that looked cool, then I thought that one in the shape of the WTC would be pretty neat. However, given the fact that it’d need to be two feet wide to hold the components, in order to get the scale right, it’d also have to be almost fourteen feet tall. (Kind of impractical for home use, since my ceilings aren’t that high. Not to mention it’d be a bitch trying to get to the turntable on top.) Oh well, back to the drawing board, I suppose.
Speakers that are 14’ tall would be pretty impressive! Cool idea anyway. I loved the WTC but haven’t seen any models I’d like. I just cherish the photos of the skyline I photographed the year before.
Of course, there is nothing to stop you from changing the width/height ratio, or omitting a few floors (“selective compression” in scale modeling terms). Or just building a generic, squatter, 70s modern-style twin tower speaker set
'Cept, of course, I’m not sure I could get it to look right, and I’m not building a speaker cabinet, but a stereo cabinet (ya know, the things yer electronics go into).