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4D Printing? Bridging Additive Manufacturing with Smart Materials

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Image Cortesia de David Correa / Achim Menges While we are still trying to understand the possibilities and limits of three-dimensional printing and additive manufacturing, a new term has emerged for our vocabulary. 4D printing is nothing more than a digital manufacturing technology -3D printing- which includes a new dimension: the temporal.

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Smart Manufacturing Campus / XDGA Architecten

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The Smart Manufacturing Campus houses companies and institutions working in the field of smart technology. Completed in 2024 in Belgium. Images by Maxime Delvaux. The project is conceived as a fully.

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Sculpting Facades: Using New Technology to Create a More Textural and Expressive Architecture

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Image © Riccardo De Vecchi Advancements in 3D printing technology are progressing at an unprecedented pace, accompanied by a parallel surge in computational power for manipulating and creating intricate geometries. Read more »

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Vertical Sliding Windows: Fusing Technology, Efficiency and Aesthetics

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Image © Jack Hobhouse When it comes to windows, we can see how much the industry's technology has evolved over time. These days, we can use huge glazed surfaces that can be easily handled, thanks to a great deal of research and experimentation by manufacturers to improve components and raw materials. Slot House / Studio Octopi.

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China is building a massive new hydroelectric dam with AI-controlled robots and 3D printing technology

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The 180 metre (590 feet) high Yangqu hydropower plant will be built slice by slice – using unmanned excavators, trucks, bulldozers, pavers and rollers, all controlled by AI – in the same additive manufacturing process used in 3D printing.

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When Digital Technologies Enhance Craftsmanship: How to Build a Domed Pavilion with Augmented Reality

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Can current design and manufacturing technologies be incorporated into vernacular and traditional construction techniques?

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Creating Fluid, Double-Curved Shapes Through Non-planar 3D Printing

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Image © Andrei Jipa As an additive manufacturing method, 3D printing has been characterized by the construction of objects through the horizontal deposition of material, layer by layer. Interior view of the Fluid Forms structure.