"Endless" house to be built using giant 3D printer
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One surface folded in an endless möbius band, floors transform into ceilings, inside into outside (Image: Universe Architecture)
The Landscape House, initially designed for the biennial Europan architecture competition, is expected to be completed in 2014 (Image: Universe Architecture)
The house was designed in a collaboration between Janjaap Ruijssenaars and mathematician and artist Rinus Roelofs (Image: Universe Architecture)
The build will use one of the largest 3D printers available, to fabricate sections which will then interlock to form the entire house (Image: Universe Architecture)
Amsterdam-based Universe Architecture hopes to build the world's first 3D-printed house as early as 2014 (Image: Universe Architecture)
Designed by Italian inventor Enrico Dini, the D-Shape 3D printer will use thin layers of sand and an inorganic binder to build up molds for the frame structure (Image: Universe Architecture)
The Möbius strip is a one-sided non-orientable surface obtained by cutting a closed band into a single strip, giving one of the two ends thus produced a half twist, and then reattaching the two ends (Image: Universe Architecture)
Universe Architecture's impression of stairways traversing through the structure (Image: Universe Architecture)
3D concept model of the proposed Landscape House design (Image: Universe Architecture)
A sectional diagram cut through an end corner turn of the building (Image: Universe Architecture)
Plan Drawing of the proposed Landscape House design (Image: Universe Architecture)
Plan drawing of the lower level of the proposed Landscape House design (Image: Universe Architecture)
Section and plan drawing of the proposed basement and parking zone of the Landscape House design (Image: Universe Architecture)
3D concept model of the proposed Landscape House design (Image: Universe Architecture)
3D sketch model of the proposed Landscape House design (Image: Universe Architecture)
Article Summary
An Amsterdam-based architecture firm has ambitions to take 3D printing to the next level, by building the world's first 3D-printed house as early as 2014. The team at Universe Architecture, led by Janjaap Ruijssenaars, hope to use a D-Shape 3D printer to form a Möbius strip-shaped structure and create a home that is "endless" in its design, where occupants can walk continuously through the building.
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