Originally shared by Jennifer Linsky
Yes; we’ve seen building printers before. But they’ve always been mounted on a frame; this one has a mobile base. That makes a huge difference.
While the platform represents an engineering advance, Oxman notes. “Making it faster, better, and cheaper is one thing. But the ability to design and digitally fabricate multifunctional structures in a single build embodies a shift from the machine age to the biological age — from considering the building as a machine to live in, made of standardized parts, to the building as an organism, which is computationally grown, additively manufactured, and possibly biologically augmented.”
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