Architect to Build House Using 3-D Printer

All facets of publishing are changing exponentially. Printing has gone way beyond mere ink and paper. CNN reports that a Dutch architect wants to print a house.

Architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars describes his $5-$6 million "Landscape House" as "one surface folded in an endless Mobius band," or sort of a giant figure 8. He says walking through its continuous looping design will seamlessly merge indoors and outdoors in an effort to model nature itself.

Ruijssenaars plans to build "Landscape House" using the emerging technology of 3-D printing, where 20-foot by 30-foot blocks are printed out of sand formed into a material like marble. Those blocks, along with fiberglass and concrete reinforcements, will be used to create the building.

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You may also be interested in reading (and seeing the video at) "Printing 3D Buildings: Five tenets of a new kind of architecture" and "Staples announces in-store 3D printing service."

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This is fascinating stuff. I hope he's able to get funding (and technology) for this and I hope it succeeds. I can envision this technique revolutionizing not just construction techniques but also architecture. Just think how much of current home design, for instance, is dictated by construction techniques--we design around home-building materials and techniques currently available. Remove those constraints and see what architects can come up with!


David Lambert Editorial Director, Somersault www.somersaultgroup.com 616-446-8042

Good insight, Dave. And when applied to publishing, remove the constraints of current publishing techniques and see what new forms books will take on.