Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) and Indian non-profit organization WeRise collaboration gave birth to the prototype of a portable “motherboard system” to improve housing conditions in rural parts of India, called Livingboard. Livingboard encourages an open-source approach to design, allowing people to build their own dwellings on top of a prefabricated core. The house is so…
A research group at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (iaac.net), based in Barcelona set on a goal of re-elaborating 3D printing techniques to overcome existing limitations for large scale application. Here are the first results: “The objective was to develop a family of small scale construction robots, all mobile and capable of constructing…
Amazing project for a new approach to additive manufacturing in arts and architecture. Again from Barcelona Fablab – IaaC: MATAERIAL – a brand new method of additive manufacturing. This patent-pending method allows for creating 3D objects on any given working surface independently of its inclination and smoothness, and without a need of additional support structures…
A truly interesting news spotted on 3Dprint.com. According to the news portal, a Slovenian company, called BetAbram, plans on releasing a 3D house printer, the BetAbram P3, in the summer According to the company the printer will be priced at approximately 12,000€. “We already constructed all three types [of printers], but we are still developing software…
“Setting up a lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster + Partners have joined with ESA to test the feasibility of 3D printing using lunar soil.” via Building a lunar base with 3D printing / Technology / Our…
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