Model home

摘要

UK researchers are planning to use scaled-up rapid prototyping techniques to make the first 'printed' house a reality. Loughborough University's mega-scale rapid manufacturing for construction project aims to print walls - and even entire buildings -using the same rapid prototyping processes that are commonplace throughout industry. These produce exact physical replicas of 3D CAD designs by creating cross-sections of the designs using liquid or powdered materials then fusing them together. The project team intends to apply this approach on a huge scale to revolutionise the way buildings are constructed.