Contour Crafting - Global Prospects

Contour Crafting - Global Prospects

Rapid prototyping on the scale of a home, or even larger by 2008. It is estimated that building costs could be reduced by 1/4 to 1/5 and time reduced exponentially (construction estimate 1 day). And, there will be much less restriction of design by the standard box framing techniques currently used. There's video of the model and discussion of implications at the site in both quicktime and windows media formats. There's also a design contest that is not limited to architects.

Via Inhabitat