‘Stone spray‘ is a robotic 3D printer that produces architecture out of soil. the team’s research was focused on the field of additive manufacturing in architecture, finding means of proposing new eco-friendly, efficient and innovative systems to print architecture in 3D. Sand is mixed with a binding agent and then sprayed by a robot arm directed by a designer or CNC pathing. The resulting form can be made structurally sound through the calculations of an algorithm and by letting the sprayed mixture harden around metal scaffolding. The researchers have been able to produce several prototypes, including a stool, but hope to work up to larger interventions, as seen in their rendering of a beach shelter.
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