MEAN* Used 30,000 Discarded Water Bottles To 3D print this pavilion

Riyad Joucka’s firm MEAN* (Middle East Architecture Network) recently created a 3D printed pavilion that invites to consider nature with a different eye. Called Deciduous, the pavilion, has been commissioned by the DIFC (Dubai International Financial Center), and aimed to celebrate the recent “Art Nights” event at DIFC organized under the theme “Autumn”. As for the term ‘deciduous’, it refers to trees that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn.

Inspired by its experiments with 3D Printing in design, MEAN* used 3 different sustainable materials: “CNC-milled Birch plywood flooring, Robotically 3D-Printed Concrete Base, and a series of branching 3D-Printed PETG stems, a plastic polymer up-cycled from 30,000 discarded water bottles”.

Operators leveraged computational modeling to conceive and quantify the design to a level of detailing optimal within the parameters and constraints of Large Format Robotic 3D Printing.

As Dubai focuses on 3D printing as a sustainable technology, the hybridization of state-of-the-art Robotic 3D printing in Plastic and Concrete is a first attempt to explore the possibilities that the two technologies can offer, contributing to the emirate’s vision of ecological construction growth towards 2025.

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