Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “3d Printed Architecture”.
So my name is brian allen. I’M a co-founder of smith, allen, studio, we’re a small oakland-based design firm and we 3d print architecture. What we’re showing today at make at maker faire is a large-scale piece of 3d printed architecture that is designed to be an interior system or a wall partition system. It’S one of the world’s largest pieces of 3d printed architecture and is our third in a series of searching for ways that we can find applications for distributed 3d printing in the architectural realm. So this piece is composed of 222 individually 3d printed components. We printed them over a month on six type, a machine series, one 3d printers.
Instead of using one large printer, we decided to use many small printers that are easily commercially available. This means that when one goes down, we can just switch and add another one to our farm, we’re hoping to release a system like this in the near future, for commercial use, as well as for home and office use. The entire piece took about 30 days to print uh, and each individual component ranges from six hours on the top for the thin components to about 12 hours.
On the bottom of the thicker components, i mean we see the future of architecture as 3d printing just adding to the tool set 3d printing augmenting traditional construction systems and challenging them. We see this as something that is actually already competitive with traditional stick frame construction: the cost to make something like this at scale, is very low only about three times traditional construction systems. So in the future, we’re going to see facades we’re going to see interior partitions, we’re going to even see structural components that are built using 3d printers. You .