3D Printer News & Reviews Tagged "Architecture"

Mataerial 3D printer builds gravity-defying structures directly onto walls

May 25, 2013

Gartner Says Early Adopters of 3D Printing Technology Could Gain an Innovation Advantage Over Rivals

March 30, 2013

3D printing is disrupting the design, prototyping and manufacturing processes in a wide range of industries, according to Gartner, Inc. Enterprises should start experimenting with 3D printing technology to improve traditional product design and prototyping, with the potential to create new product lines and markets. 3D printing will also become available to consumers via kiosks or print-shop-style services, creating new opportunities for retailers and other businesses

3D printers: What are the possibilites?

February 03, 2013

How 3D Printing Will Change Our World (Part II)

December 30, 2012

The physical results of Ms. Oxman’s work, which often manifest themselves in fantastic shapes and complicated structures, could only come to being through 3D Printing technology, which is an additive (formative) rather than a subtractive process. 3D Printing does not wastefully chip away at existing material, it forms impossible materials in “impossible geometries.”

Subdivision: Ornamented Columns by Michael Hansmeyer

December 01, 2012

Educated as an architect and computer programmer, Michael Hansmeyer intends to create a new kind of architectural expression using the mathematics of algorithms. The 2.7 meter high columns are fabricated as a layered model with sheets 1mm thick. The individually cut sheets are stacked and held together by poles that run through a common core. To cut the sheets, the astonishing 6 million faces of the 3D model are intersected with a plane representing the sheet.