The Mosaic Palette allows you to mix and up to 4 filament in different colours. It works by inputting 4 filaments, splicing them and joining them back together into 1 output filament. The output filament is pulled into the 3D printer like a normal filament but with all the colour at the right place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbxAop5ORg&t=1s... Continue Reading →
These are 3D printed cushions and pockets of polymer materials, that can expand and change its form. Controlling the amount of material and where to restrict airflow. We can control which part expands and at what rate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBSSyXU2hmE Inflatable Architecture Although uncommon, there is a whole history of prescedented inflatable architecture with the Hirshhorn Bubble... Continue Reading →
If you have ever used a foam cutting you will know its tricky to make a diagonal cut let alone a double curved surface. Foam has been in the architectural field for a long time with 2 main purposes. Architecture modelling with foam is easy and fast to work with and relatively cheap prices. Insulation... Continue Reading →
Glass has come to the world of 3D printing. Bringing glass to its melting point is not an easy task. At 1000 °C or at 1900°F if you are American. The 3D printing glass requires 2 parts, a silicon based CNC nossel that can withstand the heat and a glass furnace to feed liquid glass into the... Continue Reading →
Drones have been in the market for a while now, they are becoming a lot more cheaper and stable. Many engineers and architects are trying to put then to architectural applications. Below are some proof of concepts none of which are adopted in a massive scale. The most exciting thing to me is being able... Continue Reading →
The researchers worked to take a soft material and precisely reshape it to other textures, a difficult process given the stretching involved. Here to solve that problem is the researchers’ newly developed CCOARSE, which stands for Circumferentially Constrained and Radially Stretched Elastomer. A patent application for it has already been submitted. In order to mimic... Continue Reading →
The Ceramics Constellation Pavilion led by University of Hong Kong's professors Donn Holohan, Christian Lange, Holger Kehne and students experiments with the terracotta bick. Having non-standardised modules 3D printed with a robot arm, then fired in a traditional oven to strengthen the bricks. Pandora Box of Robotics or just another gimmick? This technique opens up... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/KflNgnIhHYc One of the greatest advantage of 3D printing is that complexity does not equate with time. An infinitely complex model will take roughly same amount of time to print as a cube given they are the same volume. In modern day society, time comes at a cost. We can no longer afford the time... Continue Reading →
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