3D PRINTING

摘要

The idea of 3D printing is by no means new: as far back as the sixties. Star Trek's "protein resequencer replicator" (food synthesiser) was foreshadowing today's 3D printing technology. But while the concept might be old the technology is anything but, and the world is now months, not decades, away from its first entirely 3D printed buildings. Dutch practices Universal Architecture and DUS Architects are both racing to complete the world's first 3D printed house later this year and much of the steelwork on London's Leadenhall Building was produced using digital fabrication.