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This looks like contour crafting with glass, so I propose the next step is to print a glass house. (Possibly with the intermediate step of constructing a very large kiln...)

The video was amazing, especially the illuminated pieces near the end.

...for concrete structures printed in place. The ability to print curved walls also makes the finished structures very resilient to earthquakes and such.

If you look at the Contour Crafting project, it basically prints the wall surfaces using a special concrete. They are used like a formwork and later get filled with standard concrete. You could add other materials like steel cables. As a plus, the printed surface has a very nice finish that you can leave just as it is. You can also print holes right into the wall instead of drilling them afterwards.

I don't think the contour crafting project will ever be built at full scale, but the idea is IMO not doomed from the start.

Reminds me of the Contour Crafting I read about a few years ago. What happened to that?

Here:

http://www.contourcrafting.org/

Why is it that interesting stories like this never carry pictures!

Here are some at least:
http://www.contourcrafting.org/

A few links could of course have helped this article... I think contourcrafting.org seems to be more or less the right page for the California project. The videos and animations are quite worth seeing.

For the Loughborough one, the closest I could come up with was Dr Soar's website...