There has been a lot of talk about the use of 3D printers in architecture. While it is still early days for this way of building to take hold and make mass impact it is starting to be done. I am confident that in time it will change everything. – Bleuscape Deisgn winsun new materials, […]
A Dutch architect is planning to construct a Möbius strip-shaped house using the world’s largest 3D printer. Landscape House, designed by Janjaap Ruijssenaars of Amsterdam firm Universal Architecture, will contain around 1,100 square metres of floorspace throughout the twisted structure. The 3D printer –which can “print” objects […]
Architects Fosters and Partners have revealed designs for a building on the Moon that could be constructed from material already on its surface. An inflatable structure would be transported from Earth, then covered with a shell built by 3D printers. The printers, operated by robots, would use soil from the Moon, known as regolith, to […]
WAITING six months for your house to be built? Soon, you will “print” a home in less than a day. Once the domain of tech geeks, 3D printing is now having a serious impact on the wider world. First it was prototype shapes for designers. Then it was models and some moulded medical components. Now, […]