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Contour Crafting Behrokh Khoshnevis University of Southern California in Los Angeles
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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’ or machine would fabricate the building in a layer by layer fashion – like a layered cake.

Behrokh Khoshnevis claim their machine would build the shell (wall) of a house in 24 hours, an increased in construction speed of 200 fold thus reducing the building cost by a fifth.

Contour Crafting Behrokh Khoshnevis University of Southern California in Los Angeles
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The idea of 3D printing could not possibly be the next big thing in buildings, prefab construction which took the world by storm has yet to make an impact, nothing beats a hand-made house. Personally, I believe all buildings should be constructed with sustainability in mind, not speed. Having said sustainability is an issue, the proposed ’3d printing’ system does not appears to be environmentally sustainable, huge mechanical system uses ridiculous amount of energy compare to simple manual labor.

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  • ^ Architecture - Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
  • ^ Architect - An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.
  • ^ Pritzker Architecture Prize - The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture".
  • ^ - Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, Dover Publications(1985). ISBN 0-486-25023-7
  • ^ - Rondanini, Nunzia Architecture and Social Change Heresies II, Vol. 3, No.

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