Advances Made in Mega Freeform Construction. The potential of large-scale freeform construction is to build a full-scale house in a day at a fraction of today's cost.
The current reality of mega layered manufacturing is it delivers more modest benefits: the ability to build designs that are difficult or impossible to construct (think Frank Gehry) using conventional techniques. In this way, large-scale freeform fabrication mimics its smaller, older cousin of rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing, except the technology is not as mature. One of the more exciting players in the mega 3D printing industry is Enrico Dini. The Italian engineer's d_shape (formerly Monolite) technology combines sand and an inorganic binder to produce what he says is a marble-like material with a resistance and traction superior to Portland cement. Huge 3D Printer Makes Buildings Out of Sand. We've seen 3D printers before, but none quite this ambitious.
Italian inventor Enrico Dini's D-Shape is on a scale large enough to print entire buildings out of simple components: sand and an inorganic magnesium-base binding material.The three-dimensional printing apparatus has hundreds of nozzles on its underside, which spray the inorganic binding glue that turns the sand into solid stone and builds up objects in layers from the bottom up. D-Shape can generate a building about four times as fast as the traditional construction method at only half the cost — or less.
Blog: 3D printing buildings: interview with Enrico Dini of D_Shape. How Big Is the Biggest Freeform 3D Architecture Print? This Big. - SolidSmack.com - SolidSmack. I don’t know if I’d really call it ‘the Biggest’ 3D print.
I’d be more likely to call it the BIGGESTEST Freeform Architecture 3D Print ever excreted by the pucker of a print head. You remember Enrico Dini, right? The fine Italian gent with a passion for print? He’s working on his next project, a quaint island Villa.