printed canopy (2015)

The project "printed canopy" deals with 3D-printing on an architectural scale. Through new developments in software and hardware, the concept of 3D-printing is very common today. At the moments architects use it a lot for modelbuilding and prototyping, but the current scale of most printers doesn't allow to print whole buildings. Since 2002 reasearcher are working on this issue, an they have already come to possible solutions for the scale problem. This project is a study how buildings could look like, if we include the advantages and boundaries of FDM-printing in the architectural design process. The design focuses on architecture in extreme environments like the brazilian jungle.