3D printing techniques can help to create sculptures in a much easier and faster way. While sculptors had to do everything by hand in the past, 3D printing techniques are now helping them out. Richard Loffler is an artist who makes wildlife sculptures which are often made in large-scale sizes. He created a series of buffalo sculptures, and it took him as long as five years to finish them, because he crafted all details with his own hands. That, however, was before he found out about 3D printing … [Read more...]

The world will probably remember Californian inventions festival Maker Faire's last edition of last weekend for its 3D printer that can print out pancakes. The festival, however, was not just about futuristically Eiffel Tower-shaped pancakes. Another project exposed during the inventions festival was called Endograft. This was is an enormous sculpture made of 222 individually 3D printed parts. This huge wall is both a prototype and installation and it can be used at home or - for instance … [Read more...]

For the first time ever architects have built a complete “room” with the use of a 3D printer. “Digital Grotesque” is the name of a 16 square meters “fully immersive, solid, human-scale enclosed structure”, which is entirely printed out of sand. It looks a lot like an exaggerated version of a sandcastle, but the project “Digital Grotesque” is so much more. The designers/ developers of this project are Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger from Swiss. They created this “room”, which has … [Read more...]

I believe almost everyone knows about the technical drafts—which contained ancient airplane models, machinery etc.—drawn up by one of the words most foremost geniuses, Leonardo Da Vinci— who just happened to be a scientist, inventor, architect, lawyer, and doctor, all at the same time. His manuscript was sold between the years of 2000-2003 to Bill Gates for a whooping sum of $600,000,000(approximately) breaking all records on book sale. The book contained some innovative ideas—at least in his … [Read more...]

A few months ago we wrote an article about a 3D printer that prints entire rooms by DUS Architects. Today we'll tell you about D-Shape.. a 3D Printer that prints entire houses. D-Shape Italian inventor Enrico Dini has developed D-Shape. An enormous 3D printer that can print entire buildings out of sand. It works as followed. First the printer sprays a thin layer of sand followed by a layer of magnesium-based binder. The glue turns the sand into solid stone, which is built up layer-by-layer … [Read more...]

The video below gives you an insight in the way Rietveld Architecs NY applies 3D printing in their day to day work. Piet Meijs, Senior Associate talks about 3D printing and the architectural industry. He explains how their Objet Eden 350 helps the firm to improve its model production and the communication with clients. … [Read more...]