Architecture has a habit of adapting its aesthetics to new technologies, whether consciously or unconsciously. Some of the most beautiful buildings of the Industrial Revolution -- the cantilever Forth Bridge, for example -- were designed by engineers, not architects, for example. Architecture quickly absorbed the idea of buildings that reflected their purpose. — wired.co.uk
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"And it runs (theoretically) by itself, so you don't need to hire builders, or worry about them injuring or killing themselves during construction."
Yeah. The Future is a marvelous place -- no inconvenient human craft services necessary !
Reminds me of Edison's single-pour concrete houses from the early 1900's. Huge infrastructure (a 5,000 component form, a mobile mixing plant and conveyor, delivery of bulk materials to the site) fraught with unintended consequences (poor thermal performance, interior condensation problems, difficult to install subsystems, etc.).
SDR +1. Who needs pesky workers, we live in a post intustrial society! I believed it's called an "information" society, or have we moved on from that already? Never mind the gulag like sweatshops in Asia that crank out the ocean of plastic products. Romney had no problem with them, so why should we?
"Would you prefer concrete, or plastic?" Plastic please...cause the oceans can stand another mountain of plastic trash infiltrating our ecosystem. - no thanks.
-3 for the whiny, unimaginative neoconservatives above. ^
there is little distinction between digital and analog craft.
unless you're a disgruntled luddite. LOL!
amazing technology, just wondering how those "houses" will work with small things called natural forces, seismic events, gravity, wind, etc. just asking that's all.....
oh and are they printing electrical wiring, plumbing pipes and duct-work too?
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