Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.
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Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
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The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace.
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How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?
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If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.
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Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.
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