Dome-shaped house in Italy is 3-D printed entirely from local clay
Humans have been building mud dwellings for thousands of years. It s time to go back to the roots.
Credit: Iago Corazza.
By combining state-of-the-art 3D printing with a construction material humans have been using for millennia, a team of daring engineers and architects from Italy are seeking to reimagine sustainable buildings.
The pilot project, called TECLA (TEchnology and CLAy), employed specialized machines whose nozzles ooze liquified clay dug up from a nearby riverbed. The end result is a 3D-printed dwelling essentially made out of locally sourced mud, rather than environmentally-taxing concrete.