Can we grow buildings? Concepts and requirements for automated nano- to meter-scale building

Large-scale 3D printing of ultra-high performance concrete – a new processing route for architects and builders

“…The classical distinction between material and structure is fading quickly with AM techniques enabling the architecturation of materials at multiple scales, hence providing structural effects at the material level [2,4,5,15], as in the case of micro-architectured trusses [13], fractal trusses [23], hierarchical honeycomb structures [1], or auxetic materials [3,[9][10][11]. From the viewpoint of construction and architecture, the distinction is also vanishing; there is a need for a new understanding of the concept of form, as an expression for the intersection of multiple flows of information [24] coming from the various aspects of the studied system. In such an interdisciplinary approach, the complexity and diversity of information is dealt with by making use of form-finding methods, meta-heuristic optimization algorithms and more conventional computational structural analysis techniques [12].…”

Context, drivers, and future potential for wood-frame multi-story construction in Europe

“…Consequently, the majority of the envisioned applications are unlikely to be adopted on a large scale by 2030. On the other hand, as noted by Vokes and Brennan (2013), CLT-based building materials might not receive research funding in the highly competitive research environment, where the emphasis is on developing the most advanced materials and techniques, and possibly strategic openings for the very long-run, such as artificial photosynthesis, mining asteroids, or growing buildings (e.g., Linturi et al, 2013;Rebolj et al, 2011).…”

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

“…In the long run, nanotechnology holds the premise to build materials bottom-up [67], and in doing so provides the opportunity to create materials with the desired adaptive properties.…”