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18-by-12-Foot Heritage Park Diorama

WhiteClouds created an 18-by-12-foot architectural diorama of This Is The Place Heritage Park with 62 buildings, more than 4,000 trees, and 561 additional objects.

Large architectural diorama of This Is The Place Heritage Park
The 18-by-12-foot diorama presents the park's buildings, roads, terrain, trees, and exhibit areas as one site model.
Customer
This Is The Place Heritage Park
Size
18 x 12 feet
Buildings
62
Landscape
4,000+ trees and 561 objects

This Is The Place Heritage Park commissioned WhiteClouds to build an 18-by-12-foot architectural diorama of the site at the mouth of Emigration Canyon in Salt Lake City. The completed model combines 62 buildings with more than 4,000 trees, 561 additional objects, roads, terrain, and monument areas in one large physical overview.

Site model

A complete park represented across a large footprint

The diorama is organized as a broad landscape rather than a single building model. Roads and paths connect clusters of structures, open spaces, trees, terrain, and exhibit areas, allowing the park to be understood as a complete site.

At 18 by 12 feet, the model provides enough area to retain differences among districts and structures while still giving viewers an overhead understanding of the whole property.

Model inventory

Sixty-two buildings among thousands of landscape elements

The 62 buildings include varied rooflines, footprints, colors, and facade treatments. More than 4,000 trees establish the landscape density, while 561 additional objects add smaller site and exhibit details throughout the model.

Those quantities matter because the scene depends on repetition as well as individual landmarks. Consistent scale, color, and placement keep the many components connected rather than reading as separate miniature collections.

Overhead view across the Heritage Park diorama
The overhead view shows how structures, roads, trees, and open areas are organized across the full park model.
Fabrication approach

3D printing combined with traditional model making

WhiteClouds used multiple 3D-printing methods alongside traditional model-making processes. Full-color printing supported texture and color on building components, while assembly, terrain work, landscaping, and placement brought the separate parts into the complete park model.

Together, the printed building components, assembled terrain, landscaping, and placed objects create the finished overview of the park.

Related capability

Planning a large architectural diorama

A comparable project should define the site boundary, scale, model footprint, building list, terrain data, landscape density, labels, viewing sides, protective cover, installation access, destination, and schedule. A controlled asset list helps establish which structures and smaller objects require individual detail.

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