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Revision as of 05:55, 2 October 2008
= involves building up the structure of the building in horizontal layers by squeezing out quick drying cement from a nozzle.
URL = http://www.contourcrafting.org/
Description
"Computer controlled flexible manufacturing methods can even be applied to constructing buildings. Contour Crafting is a technique that has been developed by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California that involves building up the structure of the building in horizontal layers by squeezing out quick drying cement from a nozzle. By the time first layer has been drawn out, the first part to be laid will have solidified enough to take the second layer. This is much like the 'fused deposition modelling' printing method but on a huge scale.
Walls of building constructed using these methods do not have to be straight, on either the horizontal or vertical axes, so complex organic curved and domed buildings can be made, perhaps mimicking biological structures.
Houses can be designed completely on computer, then the automated constructor gets to work with no human labour involved. Pipework and cabling could even be laid inside walls as they are being built." (http://www.adciv.org/Virtual_designs_into_physical_objects)