Czech industrial automation firm ICE, which has developed its own 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) technology, is reportedly in the process of constructing an upper station for a cable car in the mountainous municipality of Kopřivná. The station, whose design is based on a concept by architecture studio ATELIER3M, will become the largest publicly accessible 3D printed building in Europe.
The cable car station will sit nestled in a hilltop, not unlike a large stone resting in the landscape. The design of the station was intentional in this way, both interacting organically with the hillside and fulfilling the function of a station. According to ICE, the “dynamic mass of the cable car articulates the function of the building.” The 3D printed structure itself will consist of a section for the cable car, and an elongated day room, where visitors can rest and look out onto the surrounding landscape.
Manufacturing on Demand
The walls of the station are currently being 3D printed by ICE using its 3DCP technology, a robotic construction 3D printing solution with a patented print head that enables the use of concrete mixed with additives for more rapid solidification. The design of the walls also integrate thermal insulation as well as interior and exterior design elements.
To date, ICE’s 3D printing construction technology is also been used for a number of other local projects, including the Chapel of Convergence, an artistic organic structure that will be composed of 18 3D printed sections; and 3D printed fortifications to be used by the Czech Army on a NATO airbase.
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