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Design Process of a 3D-Printed Concrete Water Taxi Stop

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Current developments in digital design and robotic fabrication offer new opportunities in the field of concrete constructions. A manufacturing technique that is exceptionally promising within this area is Robotic 3D Concrete Printing. 3D Concrete Printing has a wide scope of advantages compared to traditional concrete formwork methods of today. One can think of shorter production cycle times because no formwork is needed anymore. It allows for efficient material usage because it can deposit material at exactly those places where it is functional needed. Beside these disruptive possibilities it will also allow for a new architectural style. Structural performance can be interwoven with design and will be more exposed in the building itself. The opportunities of Robotic 3D Concrete Printing are being explored in a real project for the city of Rotterdam; the design and manufacturing of a 3D Concrete Printed Water Taxi Stop. Through this project, a couple of questions regarding the application of Robotic 3D Concrete Printing are to be addressed:

  • In what way can form finding contribute to determining the optimal shape of a printed construction?

  • How does design freedom translate to efficient material usage?

  • How does 3D concrete printing change the role of structural design within the design process?

  • In what way contributes material and load-bearing tests to the acquisition of a building permit?

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  1. Movares Nederland BV, Daalseplein 100, 3511 SX, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jan C. van Wolfswinkel, Wim van ‘t Land, Herke Stuit & Guido Bastiaens

  2. Movares Nederland BV, P.O. Box 2855, 3500 GW, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jan C. van Wolfswinkel, Wim van ‘t Land, Herke Stuit & Guido Bastiaens

  3. Studio RAP, Robotics Architecture Production, Scheepsbouwweg 8-E2, 3089 JW, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Lucas Ter Hall & Wessel van Beerendonk

  4. Bruil, Keesomstraat 9, 6717 AH, Ede, The Netherlands

    Theo Voogd

  5. Bruil, P.O. Box 19, 6710 BA, Ede, The Netherlands

    Theo Voogd

  6. Engineering Department, Municipality of Rotterdam, P.O. Box 6575, 3002 AN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Mustapha M. Attahiri

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  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    M. Luković

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van Wolfswinkel, J.C. et al. (2018). Design Process of a 3D-Printed Concrete Water Taxi Stop. In: Hordijk, D., Luković, M. (eds) High Tech Concrete: Where Technology and Engineering Meet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59471-2_307

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