Contour Crafting

July 1st, 2005

For thousands of years building houses has been a slow process but Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California has come up with a radical solution. One that if it works properly will revolutionize architecture. This has to be seem to believed but he believes a house could be built in a day from scratch, not from prefabricated objects but from concrete and plastic fibres layered from a resin type liquid on a large scale

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“Our goal is to completely construct a one-story 2,000-square-foot home on site in one day, without using human hands,” said Dr. Khoshnevis to the New York Times.

http://www.contourcrafting.org/

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