Author: Elif Yasemin

The first 3D printed residential building of Germany, a 2 storey – single family house was designed by Mense Korte Architekten, constructed by PERI 3D Construction and completed by the end of summer in 2021. The 3D printed house, constructed in Beckum, North Rhine-Westphalia has opened doors to visitors in August, 2021. The 2 storey – single family house has a total of 160 meter-square of living area, 80 square meters of living space per floor. A 3D construction printer named “BOD2,” which is reputedly the fastest on the market and can print a 1 square meter double-skin wall in…

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Echoviren, a site-specific modular pavilion and claimed to be the world’s first 3D-printed architectural building, created by the Smith|Allen firm in California, 2013, replicate and abstract the xylem and phloem of the redwood forest life that surrounds the architectural piece in a light-dappled bucolic redwood forest. A 10 x 10 x 8-foot pavilion is made up of 585 parts printed on seven Type A Machines Series 1 desktop printers. The components had been assembled on location after being printed for two months and 10,800 hours by printers. They snapped together to form an igloo-like building with a hole in the…

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In the Material Ecology Exhibition at MoMA in 2020, Neri Oxman’s Silkworm-Spun Pavilion II, a thriving nature-centered idea and design, examined how people might advance technologically without endangering nature by using the specific example of silk extraction. The main questions that led the process: What are radically sustainable methods for spinning, weaving, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of other species such as silkworms collaborate in the construction of objects, products, and buildings? Can we extract silk without boiling cocoons? How can we extract silk without boiling cocoons? What are the implications…

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NFT Meshing with nature in Milan Design Week, RoGUILTLESSPLASTIC 2022 is a digital installation by Pininfarina Architecture, known for its ability to blend beauty and technology, highlighting the technology, and aesthetic design of the Smart House Saluzzo 43, a smart residential building project in Milan. Together with Icona Architetti Associati, Pininfarina has been commissioned by Red Group and Torchio & Daghero to create an installation dedicated to the next Smart House building that will rise in Milan, next to the future Olympic Village and the Prada Foundation. As part of an urban regeneration plan that will affect Milan for the…

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