Over the past 3 years, Computation Phd Candidate Sandy Curth has worked on ways to use earth and 3D printing. His goal is to make extremely low-carbon buildings that meet today’s building codes, allowing additive manufacturing to have a direct impact on the way we build. Sandy, who heads the Programmable Mud Research Initiative at MIT and his team of MArch students, recently published their findings in a paper titled “EarthWorks: Zero waste 3D printed earthen formwork for shape-optimized, reinforced concrete construction.” EarthWorks is a system for directly recycling construction waste soils into formwork for shape-optimized concrete and earth-building that meet California’s rigorous building code requirements. The group explored multiple modalities, including cast-in-place hybrid earth/reinforced concrete walls, tilt-up, and pre-cast structural systems, all integrated with concrete-saving design optimization tools developed by the Digital Structures group. Using this novel method, complex, material-saving geometries can be fabricated quickly and for little material cost using earth 3d printing, opening up a wide range of both performance and aesthetic design opportunities. The research article describing the results of these experiments can be found at https://lnkd.in/d-Cj6CWf Team: Alexander (Sandy) Curth, Natalie Pearl, Tim Cousin, Emily Wissemann, Vincent Jackow, Latifa Alkhayat, Oliver Moldow, Keith J. Lee, Larry Sass, Mohamed Ismail, Caitlin Mueller Photographers: Sandy Curth, Oliver Moldow, Bruce Heavin, Jesse Gates #mud #3dprinting #formwork #carbon
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Louann Wright
5 个月
Love this
Greg Curth
4 个月
Very informative!
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5 个月you don't need 3D printing to make earth dwellings. They've been made perfectly well without 3D printing for millennia. This is just technology that serves no intrinsically useful purpose