TONIGHT!!! Summer Series Talks :Contour Crafting in "VENICE"
Professor, University of Southern California
The Upcoming Revolution in Construction
The nature of construction has remained intensely manual throughout recorded history. Unlike in manufacturing, the growth of automation in construction has been slow. A promising new automation approach is Countour Crafting (CC). Invented by Behrokh Khoshnevis, Countour Crafting is a mega-scale fabrication process aiming at automated construction of whole structures as well as subcomponents. The potential of CC has become evident from experiments with various materials, geometries and scales. Using this process, a single building or a colony of buildings may be constructed automatically with all plumbing and electrical utilities embedded in each; yet each building could have a different design which can include complex curved features. The technology also has astounding environmental and energy impacts. The entry level implication is especially profound or emergency shelter construction and low income housing. NASA is exploring possible application of CC in building on other planets. This new mode of construction will be one of the very few feasible approaches for building using un-situ material on planets such as Moon and Mars, which are being targeted for human colonization before the end of the century. CC has received international attention and could soon revolutionize the construction industry.
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Thursday, May 26 ·
7:00pm-10:00pm |
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:16AM
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