Contour Crafting - Extrude-a-House

Posted by michael on Thursday March 11, 2004 @09:19AM from the just-mix-and-pour dept.

lww writes "An article in New Scientist discusses the work of Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California to design and build a fully automated robot that performs Contour Crafting, his name for a process to extrude successive layers of semi-fluid building mixtures like concrete to create entire structures. In the article, he says 'The goal is to be able to completely construct a one-story, 2000-square foot home on site, in one day and without using human hands.' by 2005. I'm pretty jazzed at the potential to construct buildings with highly curved/creative contours that would be impossible using current construction techniques."

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Frank Lloyd Wright by maggard · 2004-03-11 10:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

no six foot long paintings hung on a curved wall
D'oh! Who forgot to tell Frank Lloyd Wright in time?!
btw In museum circles horror stories of unsuitable trophy buildings like this are legion.

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