3D Printing Concrete on temporary surfaces: The design and fabrication of a concrete shell structure

Chris Borg Costanzi; Z.Y. Ahmed; Roel Schipper; F.P. Bos; Ulrich Knaack; R.J. Wolfs

3D Printing Concrete on temporary surfaces: The design and fabrication of a concrete shell structure

Chris Borg Costanzi, Z.Y. Ahmed, Roel Schipper, F.P. Bos, Ulrich Knaack, R.J. Wolfs

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In this research paper a new methodology for 3D Printing concrete onto a temporary freeform surface is presented. One of the geometrical restrictions associated with printed paste materials such as concrete is that material must be self-supporting during printing. The paper explores the possibilities of printing on top of a temporary freeform surface in order to overcome this restriction. This is achieved by combining a flexible-mould developed at TU Delft with a 3-axis gantry printer provided at TU Eindhoven. A number of hypothetical cases are studied, namely fully-printing geometries or combining 3D printing with casting concrete. The final outcome is a 5m2 partially-printed and partially-cast shell structure, realized through a completely digital workflow using Grasshopper and Rhinoceros

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017
Editors	Annette Bögle, Manfred Grohmann
Place of Publication	Hamburg
Publisher	IASS
Number of pages	13
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	IASS Annual Symposium 2017: Interfaces: architecture . engineering . science - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 25 Sept 2017 → 28 Sept 2017 http://iass2017.org/

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Conference	IASS Annual Symposium 2017
Abbreviated title	IASS 2017
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	25/09/17 → 28/09/17
Internet address	http://iass2017.org/

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3D Printing Concrete on temporary surfaces: The design and fabrication of a concrete shell structure. / Borg Costanzi, Chris; Ahmed, Z.Y.; Schipper, Roel et al.
Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017. ed. / Annette Bögle; Manfred Grohmann. Hamburg: IASS, 2017.

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