Researchers from ORNL worked with industrial partners to manufacture and connect a natural-gas-powered hybrid electric vehicle with a solar-powered building to create an integrated energy system. The car and house both were built using large-scale 3D printers. Power can flow in either direction between the vehicle and building through a lab-developed wireless technology, researchers said. … Continued
Forget rough-hewn shacks in the middle of the wilderness, future shelters set up in the remote corners of the world will be 3D-printed. And they might be powered by a 3D-printed car, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In collaboration with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (the architecture firm behind One … Continued
Innovation in a hurry? That may not sound like the ideal setting for lasting, breakthrough solutions. But if necessity is the mother of invention, then historic examples like the 1893 Columbian Exposition and the Space Race demonstrate how collecting bright minds in one place and focusing them on an urgent mission certainly can pay off. … Continued
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an iconic firm most recognized for their influence in modern architecture with such iconic buildings as the Willis Tower, the Burj Khalifa, and One World Trade Center, has unveiled its newest ambition: a 3-D-printed structure powered by a 3-D-printed car, developed in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The building, … Continued
Our tallest buildings elicit all manner of flowery descriptions and grandiose statement, owing to both their scale and symbolism. In the entryway to Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s highest, quotes such as “the word impossible is not in the leaders’ dictionaries” are prominently displayed, a series of Successories for skyscrapers. … According to Bill … Continued
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) has unveiled their design for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL): a 3D-printed building powered by a 3D-printed vehicle developed by ORNL. Dubbed AMIE, the project was developed in collaboration with ORNL, University of Tennessee (UT), Clayton Homes, General Electric, Alcoa, NanoPore and Tru-Design. SOM … Continued
With the first Chicago Architecture Biennial kicking off later this week, Dezeen picks 10 of the projects – past and present – that have helped shape the city that gave birth to contemporary high-rise architecture. Chicago’s early 20th century rise as an architectural testing ground came from a wild convergence of immense wealth, available space … Continued
The scale of this architectural boom is hard to fathom in LA’s sprawl, but a sense of its impact can already be gathered from recently completed and just-about-to-open projects including Maltzan’s One Santa Fe, a combination of residential architecture and urbanism in the Arts District, KPF’s re-skinning of the Petersen Automotive Museum, and SOM’s Federal … Continued
Currently, with tons of scaffolding and construction equipment everywhere, it’s still pretty hard to really tell how the finished project will affect the surrounding area from a pedestrian level. I am optimistic that it will help toward making our Civic Center more coherent and less disjointed. SOM’s goal was to design the project to balance … Continued
A car and a home that share a power source could be the way of the future. East Tennessee researchers are creating that very technology. The Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy project, or AMIE, shows a home and a car that can power each other using electricity and a natural gas hybrid powered car. The project … Continued