Fun with mud:
Mario Cucinella Architects and Wasp, Italy’s leading 3D printing company, have completed the first house to be 3D-printed from raw earth. The process coined Tecla (standing for technology and clay) is eco-sustainable and environmentally friendly due to the production being zero waste and needing no materials to be transported to the site as it uses local soil. It took just 200 hours for multiple printers to construct the 60-square-metre prototype in Ravenna, Italy. [It’s Nice That]
While there’s a lot made of how this uses purely local materials, I suspect there are cases where local material topology should not be disturbed; but, of course, then why build there at all?
