Contour Crafting, 3D Construction Printing by University of Southern California

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Your phones, shoes, clothes, cars, planes and almost everything man made are made automatically with machines, except for your house and it doesn’t make sense, or does it? Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who will soon unleash his $1.5m (£940,000) robot, according to him, the ‘robot’ [...]

French Vision of the Year 2000

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Found this really interesting article from Arch*Idea, These illustration speaks volume of the way a French guy in the year 1910 imagined our human civilization in the year 2000. Well, we’re now almost 100 years from 1910 but these prediction of his still appears too futuristic for our time.

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Future Drafting Technique

Evodia, a french company presents its first TabletPC software, a pen-based sketching program for electrical sketches.Imagine the TabletPC’s touchscreen size is as big as an A1, this could possibly be the future of drafting.Found via RobiNZ CAD Blog
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You Can’t Rush Art

There is a scene in Toy Story 2 where an old man says “You can’t rush art.” This is especially true with every work of art be it animation or architecture.

They said Rome wasn’t build in a day… but Dubai was. With a population of 2 millions and an economic growth of 16% (China at [...]

The Great Pyramid of Tokyo

Probably one of the many reason stopping them from building tall buildings is their frequent earthquake and tsunami waves, but this time around they claim to be able to solve these problems with the Great Pyramid of Tokyo. According to their engineers:
Japanese designers are now planning an offshore magacity that could house close to a [...]

Concrete + Grass = Grasscrete

According to Cnet, it appears that some researcher in China have developed “Grasscrete”, if things goes accordingly, this Grasscrete would be an environmentally sustainable alternative paving for footpath for the Olympic Forest Park in northern Beijing.
What is so unique about that invention?
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Construction of the Great Pyramid

Past theories have suggested that builders on Egypt’s Giza Plateau build the pyramid’s using an external ramp, some say the ancient Egyptian has seek help from aliens using UFO to move those big blocks of stones. French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin has a new theory.
What if the pyramid had been built from the inside out?
Twentieth year [...]

Automate Home Building by Robots

Your car, shoes, clothes and many more are already made automatically by robots, but your house is not! Which doesn’t make any sense at all considering the fact that we are living in the 21st century. Well, that is about to change if Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis and his team are able to prove that robots [...]