There’s something super exciting about the future of architecture.
Architecture has always been dependent on structural questions: to build a living room with large windows, you will need a system to hold those heavy glass panes, probably a load-bearing wall nearby, etc.
Whatever you think about in terms of architecture and interior design will be controlled and given to you by the structural quality of the building.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a 1956 rare, custom, complex mid-century home in the desert or a produced en masse apartment building from 2007 in Florida. Same structural questions that will answer your living questions, always. We are limited by the frame.
Until now!!!
3D printing means that we do not care about structure anymore. Because everything is made through a printing process, everything stands on its own, like a shell. No more calculations to know if that steel frame can hold and support this and that. We print, y’all! It’ll hold and support by default.
How much it liberates our minds, it’s pure magic. I was re-reading the famous Case Study Houses book and most of the challenges were about structure and cost. Those architects were structure’s bitches.
Not anymore!!!
It’s not the end of math: there are other calculations and numbers to take care of with 3D printing, but the all “is it possible to..?” crucial question doesn’t exist anymore.
It is so freeing, I cannot.
I will 3D-print my custom house. It will probably be concrete (or maybe rammed earth if possible) and hemp, two natural and extremely strong materials. Of course, that also means near zero-waste construction and pre-build homes, which means assembled in a matter of weeks.
This is so exciting. OMG