Dutch Architect to "Print" House

John Hill
28. 1月 2013
Rendering courtesy of Universe Architecture

3D printers have many uses, one of them being to construct architectural models. But architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars, of Universe Architecture, is planning to build a house with the technology. The "Landscape House" is triangular in plan and resembles a Möbius strip, as floors bend into ceilings, and vice-versa, at each corner.

The house's construction will not use the type of 3D printers that architects use to build study models, though. It will use D-Shape, a "mega scale free-form printer" that creates a stone-like structure from sand and a special inorganic binder. The printer is limited to a cubic area that is six meters on each side, meaning that the house would be assembled from multiple pieces.

The announcement of the project and application of the D-Shape application has generated a substantial amount of buzz. All eyes will be on both parties to see if they can pull it off.

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