Fibreglass fuzzies for reinforcement.
Why not just build the plastic model bigger? It'll be fun when folks
relearn the meaning of the word, "plastic".
-jc
On Mar 11, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Bruce Marcham wrote:
> Ooh, concrete--hard to erase your mistakes.
>
> I'll like this idea a lot better if they can figure out how to
> insert rebar for strength (assuming the structure are actually meant
> to stand for a period of time and be safe). But then the architect
> would have to involve someone else (a structural engineer) and that
> would just get in the way of his vision...
>
> I think architects better stick with the plastic prototyping machines
> and just use them for models.
>
> "Men with insight, men with Gunnite, knights in armor bent on
> chivalry." (appologies to Van Morrison)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: This isn`t an orifice, it`s help with fluorescent lighting.
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John
> Callan
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:44 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BP] Robot builder could 'print' houses
>
>
> Why concrete? Wouldn't a material like styrofoam be more appropriate?
> Or are these guys convinced that they must stick to a 'traditional"
> building material?
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2004, at 10:11 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>
> BP'ers:
>
>
> Well, this is it. The end as we know it. At least the end of
> the printed word as we know it. Read on:
>
>
> "A robot for "printing" houses is to be trialled by the construction
> industry.It takes instructions directly from an architect's
> computerised drawings and then squirts successive layers of
> concrete..."
>
>
> http://www.aggregateresearch.com/press.asp?id=3889&s=m
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>
>
> I like the idea of squirting concrete. I'll have to revise my
> business plan to include examining the squirty concrete. Vast profits
> ahead!
>
>
> And, there's MORE! A big savings in tea will be had! Quote: "It can
> work round the clock, in darkness and without tea breaks." Note to
> BP'ers: Sell stock in Tetley.
>
>
>
>
> This was developed by "Engineer Behrokh Khoshnevis, at the University
> of Southern California..." He also thinks that it would work with mud
> and straw. Perhaps he is looking toward a market in Iran. You know,
> the traditional materials to build with in an earthquake-prone area.
>
>
> Degussa is now collaborating with him. You may recall that they were
> almost thrown off the Holocaust memorial job in Germany because one of
> their predecessors produced Zyklon B fifty or so years ago. Now they
> produce many other chemicals, including concrete admixtures. It is
> unknown whether they produce mud/straw admixtures.
>
>
> In parting, the article contains what has to be one of greatest
> non-statements of the day; "Greg Lynn, a leading architect from
> Venice, California, said. "I believe that aesthetically there's a
> great potential to make things that have never been seen before."
> Spoken by somebody truly versed in sights of Muscle Beach.
>
>
>
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