Applications
What 3D printed concrete is used for: urban furniture, planters, walls, facades, precast elements, interiors and landscape.
3D Printed Concrete Furniture
Printed concrete furniture is indoor and outdoor furniture such as tables, seating, bar and kitchen counters and supporting bases whose body is extruded in layers from a cement-based mortar rather than cast in formwork.
3D Printed Facade Elements
Printed facade elements are non-structural or semi-structural cladding, screening and shading components for building envelopes, produced by extruding cement-based mortar in layers and fixed back to a supporting structure.
3D Printed Houses: State of the Art
A 3D printed house is a dwelling whose wall envelope is produced by extruding cement-based mortar in layers on site or in a shop, while floors, roof, services and finishes are normally built by conventional means.
3D Printed Planters and Pots
Printed planters are containers for growing media, from small pots to large public planters and green wall modules, formed by extruding cement-based mortar in layers so that the wall shape and the internal volume are defined directly by the toolpath.
3D Printed Precast Elements
Printed precast means producing concrete elements by extrusion printing in a workshop or factory and transporting them to site for assembly, and it also covers printing moulds and formwork into which conventional concrete is cast.
3D Printed Urban Furniture
Printed urban furniture is street and public space equipment such as benches, bollards, planters and waste bin surrounds produced by extruding cement-based mortar in layers instead of casting it in moulds.
3D Printed Wall Sections
A printed wall section is a wall built by extruding cement-based mortar along a closed toolpath layer by layer, so that the wall shape, its cavities and its internal ribs are produced directly without formwork.
3D Printing for Landscape Architecture
Landscape applications of concrete printing cover outdoor site elements such as seating and retaining walls, site furniture, water features, path edges, park structures and submerged habitat units, produced by extruding cement-based mortar in layers.
3D Printing in Interior Design
Interior applications of concrete printing are non-structural indoor elements such as partitions, reception and bar counters, feature walls, bathroom components and retail fixtures, made by extruding cement-based mortar in layers instead of casting or assembling them.