Printing houses
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Concrete-jet ‘printers’ to build houses, Moonbases in hours
My initial thoughts:
Positives
- Very cool
- Very quick
- cheap
- can build interesting things on a whim
Negatives
- Removes a stage where intelligent, skilful, and experienced people examine and interpret the design
- Looks like it will lead to buildings that are not easily modified/renovated.
- No chance to recycle materials
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September 9th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
It could be recyclable. But not likely.
You culture-jammer you.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:28 am
What’s worse: just think about the number of times that you’ve clicked print, walked to the printer and found that you selected the wrong sized paper. I partly like the notion of buildings accidentally getting printed over the tops of neighbouring buildings, and buildings turning out double size…
You know what scratch that. It wouldn’t be worse. It would be awesome
November 15th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Indeed, I can imagine it now:
(Hits Print, wander off. Client arrives as it is finishing)
“What is this, a center for ANTS? It needs to be at least…THREE TIMES BIGGER than this!”
:)