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A Dutch architect has designed a house \u201cwith no beginning or end\u201d to be built using the world\u2019s largest 3D printer, harnessing technology that may one day be used to print houses on the moon.<\/p>\nA Dutch architect has designed a house \u201cwith no beginning or end\u201d to be built using the world\u2019s largest 3D printer, harnessing technology that may one day be used to print houses on the moon.<\/p>\n
Janjaap Ruijssenaars, 39, of Universe Architecture in Amsterdam, wants to print a Mobius strip-shaped building with around 1,100 square metres (12,000 square feet) of floor space using the massive D-Shape printer.<\/p>\n
The printer, designed by Italian Enrico Dini, can print up to almost a six-metre-by-six-metre square (20-foot-by-20-foot), using a computer to add layers 5-10 mm (a quarter to half an inch) thick.<\/p>\n
Ruijssenaars says the building could serve as a home or a museum and would have parts usually made from concrete printed using broken up rocks and an emulsion binding, while steel and glass would provide the facade.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s our ambition to have the first printed house, this printer has made art or objects for sea defences, but this is the first time to build something that can be lived in,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n
Ruijssenaars said the plan was not initially to print the building but the hi-tech medium turned out to be the most appropriate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started to ask the question if a building can be like the landscape, in order to make a building that would not harm the landscape, or at least learn from the landscape,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe analysed that the essence of landscape is that it has no beginning or ending, so it\u2019s continuous, not only the fact the world is round but also water goes into land, valleys into mountains, it\u2019s always continuous.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Mobius-strip shaped result bears a striking resemblance to the art of another Dutchman, 20th-century designer and illustrator M C Escher.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this design he\u2019s definitely been an inspiration, I would say he\u2019s the king of Mobius strips in drawing,\u201d Ruijssenaars said.<\/p>\n
When trying to make a small model of the building, Ruijssenaars realised that whatever material you use, from paper to lead, \u201cyou have to make a strip and then bend it in order to make this Mobius strip.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut with a 3D printer, even a small model, we could make the whole structure from bottom to top without anyone seeing where it is beginning or ending,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Working with Dutch mathematician and artist Rinus Roelofs and Dini in Italy, \u201cwe put the whole thing in the computer,\u201d the architect said.<\/p>\n
A Brazilian national park has expressed interest in the building, which would cost around four million euros ($5.3 million) to construct, the architect said, or it could be built as a private home in the United States.<\/p>\n
The project would take around 18 months to build and the printer \u201cmight be active for half a year,\u201d Ruijssenaars said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe challenge is demonstrating that it\u2019s possible to print real buildings in 3D and affirm that there is a new way to manufacture buildings,\u201d Dini, 50, said by telephone from Italy.<\/p>\n
Dini, who gave up his well-paid job in robotics designing prototypes for the footwear industry to build his monster printer, said that 3D printing of buildings remains a hybrid process with other building techniques for reinforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s about being competitive with other construction techniques,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
One advantage of using printing is that you can easily build-in empty spaces for plumbing and electrics \u2014 and that you can use rocks found in situ at the construction site, which could be almost anywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe great thing about the printer is that you can take it somewhere and then print with the ground you find on location,\u201d Ruijssenaars said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you could take the printer to the moon, assemble it there and print with moon material.\u201d<\/p>\n
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