Gizmag has published an article on the first entirely 3D printed room designed by Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger, a new Assistant Professor at the Daniels Faculty.

Dillenburger is a senior lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's architecture department in Zurich, where he was responsible for the computational-design classes of the postgraduate program. He will begin teaching at the Daniels Faculty in January.

The 170-square-foot, 11-ton room was created using a Voxeljet 3D printer "about the size of a large room," reports Gizmag.

Thinking big is apparently no challenge for architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger. They've created a 3D printed room using algorithms to design its intricate cathedral-like interior. Assembled from 64 massive separate sandstone parts printed out with a huge 3D printer, the room contains 260 million surfaces printed at a resolution of a tenth of a millimeter. The 11-ton room took a month to print but only a day to assemble. The fabrication methods the duo used to print the room will, they believe, open the door to printing architecture, freeing architects to create new unimaginable buildings and also restore old ones.

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