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Ningbo Camel Block Lucky Street 3D Printing Art Wall

Ningbo Camel Block Lucky Street 3D Printing Art Wall is located in Camel Block, an open block that integrates shopping, catering, leisure, and business. It starts renovating in October 2020, and it was launched on31st March 2021 as a "characteristic block", and officially opened on April 26. In the east is North Jinhua Road and in the west is Dahe North Road.

The landscape art wall is 15m long, 0.5m wide, and 1.8m high. It is the largest outdoor 3D printing landscape art wall in China, which is actually the master piece in the 3D printing industry. It is the first breakthrough of 3D printing technology in the outdoor block renovating project. It ranks the first in both length and volume in China. The wall is printed by the 6-axis hybrid Additive Manufacturing & CNC machining HM240A-5 independently developed in China. Through the intelligent manufacture center, the integrated finished product is completed from the printing, the painting and the lighting debugging.

Lucky Street 3D Printing Art Wall is in the form of art illustration. The 15-meter hyperbolic scroll wall surface shows the 100 years history of the camel bridge. Reproduce the iconic scene, connecting river port history (water), business origin (business), cultural inheritance (learning), local customs (hearing), memory on the canvas, details everywhere hidden rich historical scenes, attracting people to stop and appreciate, and perfectly decorate the parking interface.

The 3D print art wall has three irreplaceable breakthroughs: First, we make the canal water network as a concave design, Grad fade in reel on one side of the river, Overhang of the banks on the other side of the river. Revolutionary creation of an integrated hidden LED seam-free nodes. Viewer can’t see the directly LED lines. The LED lights can perfectly illuminate the whole river, winding around, the 3D vivid river courses jump above the scroll; Second, We depict the delicate character story in a dark silhouette technique, the indentation is placed above the white scroll, with a sealed linear texture of only 3 mm thick, performing vivid stories on the scroll through infinite superimposed weaving, creating a fully enclosed waterproof and mosquito-proof, integrated landscape wall light box. The 15 m long scroll has 10 piece of 1.5 m X1.8 m print panels with vertical texture seamless stitching, precision as silk weaving. During Day, the story of the golden daub on the wall speaks out; At night, Light box illuminates the entire reel. The illustration details like shadow puppets and the river are intertwined, becoming the most beautiful punching in scenery in Lucky Street, adding the street vitality; Third, the Print material is a PC composite, printing layer by layer. It’s a low-carbon environmental protection process for zero waste. The printing layer is only 8 mm thick; strength exceeds conventional FRP, GRC, etc., materials several times. And it has a very good toughness, short print cycle, site construction cycle is only for a few hours. It completely solves the traditional process such as coarse process, inaccurate product, low safety factor, lengthy production cycle, inaccurate construction and other pain points.

At present, China is in a critical period of economic structural adjustment and transformation. China's intelligent manufacturing 2025 is an important link to help the transformation. The completion of the 3D printing art wall in Lucky Street has declared a major breakthrough in the landscape outdoor intelligent construction industry, realized a number of technologies that cannot be completed by the traditional manufacturing industry, and become a key example of building a manufacturing power. Under the made in China 2050 strategy, to comprehensively improve the level of urban civilization, further promote the construction of civilization street, lucky street renovation will carry the banner of the traditional block renovation, become the main force to push forward, beginner's mind is to "meet the people for a better life of new yearning, new expectations", the ultimate purpose is to let people have a sense of gain, happiness. More fine arts elements are applied to urban planning and construction, enhance the aesthetic charm and cultural taste of the city, and make the art achievements better serve the people's needs for the high quality of life. This is the direction that urban renewal upgrading needs to be continuously explored.


 
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Status: Built
Location: Ningbo, CN
Firm Role: Design, 3D printing design & intelligent construction
Additional Credits: Client:MYP
Branding Design:HSH
3D Printing Design & Intelligent Construction:BLUA
Year Complete:2021
Design Team:Zhu Huiran,Chen Haibiao
Structure Consultant:eyemore
Email:bluarchitecture@qq.com
Project Location:Zhejiang, Ningbo
Project Area:27 ㎡
Photograph: PRISM & BLUA
More:BLUA(www.blu-a.com contact email :bluarchitecture@qq.com)

 
Printing process

Translucent effect