The AZL Architects’ has used Additive Manufacturing to create a pavilion structure built from 3D printed plastic blocks as part of the newly-built LEI House, which was developed for a local businesswoman who wanted a new property to add to her established bed-and-breakfast brand.
AZL Architects’ design for the LEI House was intended to combine the old and the new styles, using the 3D printed plastic pavilion as a counterpoint to the robust stone-clad main building. Its location in the village of Shanyinwu in Hangzhou, China. The inner space has an open layout and is compact in a similar way to many older rural houses. The entire LEI House overlooks a valley and reservoir, with a hillside rising behind it. The main building was put together with 400 3D printed blocks, made from a translucent plastic material.
The production’s time in one month by three separate suppliers in Beijing and Nanjing, and two inexperienced local villagers were then able to assemble the pavilion from these blocks in just three days.The main square three-storey building aligns well with its neighbouring houses.This village’s recent re-development is typical of many rural Chinese communities, where many houses have been modernized or rebuilt in the past decade.Nevertheless, this process usually goes ahead with very little consultation from architects, and many of the traditional charms of the buildings and their community can be lost during renovation.
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3Ders.org David Apr30 2018 AZL Architects modernizes rural Chinese stone house with 3D printed pavilion https://www.3ders.org/articles/20180430-azl-architects-modernizes-rural-chinese-stone-house-with-3d-printed-pavilion.html visited on May 2nd 2018;
Inside 3D Printing Sandra Helsel May 1st 2018 https://inside3dprinting.com/news/azl-architects-combines-new-3d-printed-plastic-blocks-with-old-slate-to-modernize-chinese-home/45468/ visited on May 2nd 2018;
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(First) Dezeen Alyn Griffiths Apr 28th 2018 www.dezeen.com/2018/04/28/3d-printed-pavilion-traditional-stone-structure-lei-house-azl-architects-china/ visited on May 2nd 2018;
(Second and third photo) 3Ders.org David Apr30 2018 AZL Architects modernizes rural Chinese stone house with 3D printed pavilion https://www.3ders.org/articles/20180430-azl-architects-modernizes-rural-chinese-stone-house-with-3d-printed-pavilion.html visited on May 2nd 2018;
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