Daily Archives: March 12, 2004

Dehydrated buildings

I had a strange idea recently based on two links that popped up in the past few days. One, from DECAFBAD’s latest batch of quick links, is about a robotic system that’s basically a gigantic plotter. The trick is, it uses concrete instead of ink to basically print a house from computerized plans. The other nifty thing (from an e-mail list I’m on) is a combination of concrete and optic fibers called “LiTraCon“, which is basically transparent concrete.
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