https://qz.com/1705386/the-dfab-house-exhibit-opens-in-new-york-city/
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Erecting a new building ranks among the most inefficient, polluting activities humans undertake. The construction sector is responsible for nearly 40% of the world’s total energy consumption and CO2 emissions, according to a UN global survey (pdf).
A consortium of Swiss researchers has one answer to the problem: working with robots. The proof of concept comes in the form of the DFAB House, celebrated as the first habitable building designed and planned using a choreography of digital fabrication methods.
The three-level building near Zurich features 3D-printed ceilings, energy-efficient walls, timber beams assembled by robots on site, and an intelligent home system. Developed by a team of experts at ETH Zurich university and 30 industry partners over the course of four years, the DFAB House, measuring 2,370 square feet (220 square meters), needed 60% less cement and has passed the stringent Swiss building safety codes.
“This is a new way of seeing architecture,” says Matthias Kohler, a member of DFAB’s research team. The work of architects has long been presented in terms of designing inspiring building forms, while the technical specifics of construction has been relegated to the background. Kohler thinks this is quickly changing. “Suddenly how we use resources to build our habitats is at the center of architecture,” he argues. “How you build matters.”
DFAB isn’t the first building project to use digital fabrication techniques. In 2014, Chinese company WinSun demonstrated the architectural potential of 3D printing by manufacturing 10 single-story houses in one day. A year later, the Shanghai-based company also printed an apartment building and a neoclassical mansion, but these projects remain in the development phase.
Kohler explains that beating construction speed records wasn’t necessarily their goal. “Of course we’re interested in gaining breakthroughs in speed and economy, but we tried to hold to the idea of quality first,” he says. “You can do things very, very fast but that doesn’t mean that it’s actually sustainable.”
(Score: 2, Troll) by legont on Wednesday September 18 2019, @04:21AM (1 child)
Big cities are the main polluters and if liberals move to the country they would stop destroying the planet even if they start driving large trucks.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @05:01AM
Yeees, those bloody Swiss liberals!
The US conservatives are choked to death by them, they just can't conserve any further. No wonder the production of canned nuts is at a historic low, so US is truly the country of the free nuts. (grin)
(feel free to mod both the parent and this comment Offtopic. Because they are.)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday September 18 2019, @04:54AM (4 children)
From TFA
And the photos in TFA absolutely proves it!
Really, go RTFA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday September 18 2019, @07:31AM (3 children)
Curves only a robot could love.
And yet it looks like it would blow away in a deecent storm.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 18 2019, @08:36AM (2 children)
Don't tell me, tell Bot [soylentnews.org]
Looks can be deceiving.
Besides, I reckon a dee is quite a large unit of measure for storms, if a cent of it is required to blow that building away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:17AM (1 child)
Stopp moocking my brooken keyboardpoopopo
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 18 2019, @10:06AM
Ah, sorry, I thought it was your autocorrect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by rylyeh on Wednesday September 18 2019, @05:13AM
Um, the Netherlanders have made building houses out of shipping containers an art.
https://blog.lumens.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Shipping-Container-House-810x810.jpg [lumens.com]
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 18 2019, @07:21AM
Inefficient as opposed to what? Seriously, is it meant to be a factual statement or yet another tedious "Everything about you is BAD!!!!" towards the home team from the never mentally matured past teen angst progtards?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @04:24PM
Don't post subs written in giberish.