Over the past 3 years, Computation Phd Candidate Sandy Curth
@sandycurth has worked on ways to use earth and 3D printing to make extremely low-carbon buildings that meet today’s building codes, allowing additive manufacturing to have a direct impact on the way we build.
Sandy, who heads the
@programmablemudmit Research Initiative and his team of MArch students recently published their findings in the paper “EarthWorks: Zero waste 3D printed earthen formwork for shape-optimized, reinforced concrete construction.”
EarthWorks is a system for directly recycling construction waste soils into formwork for shape-optimized concrete and earth-building that meet California’s rigorous building code requirements. The group explored multiple modalities, including cast-in-place hybrid earth/reinforced concrete walls, tilt-up, and pre-cast structural systems, all integrated with concrete-saving design optimization tools developed by the Digital Structures group.
Using this novel method, complex, material-saving geometries can be fabricated quickly and for little material cost using earth 3d printing, opening up a wide range of both performance and aesthetic design opportunities.
The research article describing the results of these experiments can be found at /science/article/pii/S0950061824035293?dgcid=author#sec0060
Team:
Alexander (Sandy) Curth
@sandycurth @programmablemudmit , Natalie Pearl
@_nattyp_ , Tim Cousin
@p_a_l_z_i_n_c , Emily Wisseman
@emiwis , Vincent Jackow
@plaque.tournante , Latifa Alkhayat
@line.tifa , Oliver Moldow
@oliverimoldow , Keith Lee
@keith_j_l2 , Larry Sass
@larrythesass , Mohamed Ismail
@moh.isms , Caitlin Mueller
@digitalstructuresmit
Photographers: Sandy Curth, Oliver Moldow, Bruce Heavin
#mud #3dprinting #formwork #carbon
