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Water-Based Additive Manufacturing

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/water-based-additive-manufacturing/overview/

This research project investigates the creation and feasibility of a new type of digital fabrication that is based around water and utilizes additive manufacturing (AM) which will allow for gradually built, small to large-scale structures. Because of its basis around water, this method of fabrication utilizes the incorporation of biomaterial and organic aggregates which allows for a more sustainable and eco-friendly means of production. I admire the change in materiality of this project because it aims to solve issues of construction and degradation all together. What I know of the algorithms used for this research project is that they are not as geometrically sound. Primary methods of digital fabrication are centered around geometrics which use more energy to construct and are unstable. This new method uses an organic algorithm in terms of shape and additive layers.