Home 3D printed from locally sourced clay takes shape in Italy By Shane Reiner-Roth

“Last September, printing began on the architect’s first prototype of a two-room house in Massa Lombarda, a quiet comune east of Bologna, Italy. Named TECLA in a nod to an imaginary place in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, the home was engineered by Italian company WASP to become the very first to be entirely printed from a locally-sourced clay that is both biodegradable and recyclable. That material is extruded through a pipe and set in place using a Crane WASP, a modular 3D printing system that can print objects as large as 21 feet in diameter and as tall as nine feet.”

 

Read the full article in The Architect’s Newspaper HERE

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Jennifer Ling Datchuk on Perceived Value Podcast

Check out this episode and so many more over on the website. And make sure to add this podcast to your favorites. So much great content that covers all aspects of making, showing, marketing, critiquing and analyzing craft.

Perceived Value is a self-produced podcast during which Sarah Rachel Brown interviews artists about about their careers, personal lives, failures, accomplishments, and asks the question: how do you make it all happen?

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Sarah Rachel Brown is the host and producer of Perceived Value. She currently lives in Philadelphia, PA where she holds down a full-time day job and hustles as a contemporary jeweler on her nights and weekends.

To see more of her work go to

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