I can also foresee a Future, where buildings will...

I can also foresee a Future, where buildings will be built out of Living Materials; Where buildings will Interact with the User; where buildings can Heal themselves; Where buildings take care of All the Cooling/Heating, Waste Management, and other such functions On their own, without any dependance on the Grid; where buildings can be Modified without any hassles; Where buildings continue to Grow, As and when the User’s needs changes; Where the User can Grow all the Food needed…………………….

Let me know Your Opinion about Where you see Architecture heading in the next Twenty-five to Fifty years!

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Hypercrafting And The Future Of Printing Buildings — The Pop-Up City

The idea is simple. The new 3D printing techniques enable one to design buildings and transfer the design to any part of the world where it can be printed. At this building site the framework of the building is printed with a woodcutter from a computer model. As soon as this hull is being printed the building can be finished with local available material such as clay or mud. Here the designers, Waag Society, DUS Architects and Arne Hendriks, worked together with some local traditional mud workers.

Hypercrafting can be regarded a 21st century craftsmanship. The combination of computer technology and modern machinery leads to the opportunity to build anything that comes up in our minds. Now we actually need to learn working with modern craftsmanship, according to Waag society’s Bas van Abel. This experiment is an effort to use new insights to create social and sustainable design. Social because design can be transferred and used in every part of the world, also the less fortunate countries, and sustainable because locally available products are the backbone of the design.