{"title":"Cognitive Nests: Nested Data-Driven Decision Support System in Regenerative Design from Biology to Ecology.","authors":"Parichehr Goodarzi, Farahbod Heidari, Katia Zolotovsky, Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad","doi":"10.1089/3dp.2023.0331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2023.0331","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regenerative design lies on synergistic relationship between sociocultural and ecological systems, which can enable revolutionary boundaries for designing decision-making frameworks. Transitioning to regenerative design as a manifestation of systems thinking necessitates a fundamental shift from sustainable patterns and mechanistic design methodologies. At its core, regenerative design unlocks a holistic paradigm that fosters circular systems reliant on renewable resources, which can strive for equilibrium between creation and utilization. This framework goes beyond mere sustainability by actively engaging in the restoration and regeneration of its sources of energy and materials. It aspires to harness the inherent wisdom of nature, facilitating a comprehensive harmonious coexistence with environment. The integration of data-driven decision-making and regenerative paradigms can provide an insight for developing evidence-based solutions for strategic environmental and natural resource management through design practices. This short research presents a holistic data-driven and self-adaptive design strategy as the integrated problem-solver model under the imperatives of regenerative adaptive design and transfer knowledge system capable of the extensive range of applications from microscale to macroscale. The underlying idea proposes orientation on machine learning feedback loop mechanisms and nested coevolutionary loops embedded in an inclusive feedback loop frame, synergistically interfaced with the typologies of monitoring systems and intuitive datasets to problem-solve at the intersection of design, construction, and built environment. This design model can support designers, planners, and city managers in optimizing their decision-making process by relying on precise data-driven feedback in different scales of complex systems, from living bits to ecological living environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":54341,"journal":{"name":"3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing","volume":"12 2","pages":"192-198"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12038331/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144046157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing with Printed Responsive Biomaterials: A Review.","authors":"Laia Mogas-Soldevila, Katia Zolotovsky","doi":"10.1089/3dp.2024.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2024.0004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review explores additive manufacturing (AM) strategies across disciplines for designing with responsive biomaterials and presents a vision of how printed responsive biomaterials (PRBs) can be integrated into everyday objects and buildings to enhance environmental and human health. Advancements in biomaterials science, biological materials manufacturing, synthetic biology, biomedical engineering, bio design, and living architecture are ushering in a new era characterized by multisensory interactions within everyday products and built environments. The material systems developed in recent research demonstrate the ability to interact with their environments through biological, chemical, or physical processes, yielding functionalities desirable in daily-use products. These include self-healing, health diagnostics, pathogen neutralization, adjustable stiffness, strain detection, threat visualization, shapeshifting, toxin trapping, stress correction, waste processing, and energy generation. Here we review examples of AM of biobased environmentally interactive materials using biopolymer composites, electrochemical and resistive devices, active molecules, bio sensors, living cells, spores, or cell-free sites, resulting in genetically active, and physical and chemical interactive systems. We highlight their robustness and evaluate their potential for scaling up into designs and architectures on Earth and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":54341,"journal":{"name":"3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing","volume":"12 2","pages":"155-168"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12038318/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144043168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3D-Printed Mycelium Biocomposites: Method for 3D Printing and Growing Fungi-Based Composites.","authors":"Danli Luo, Junchao Yang, Nadya Peek","doi":"10.1089/3dp.2023.0342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2023.0342","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite recent advances in 3D printing and additive manufacturing, the main materials in rapid prototyping are derived from finite resources such as petroleum-based plastics. Researchers are developing alternatives to exhaustible and potentially environmentally harmful materials through biomaterials. Mycelium biocomposites are one promising area of inquiry; when mycelium decomposes biomass, it produces a composite biomaterial, which is fully compostable and has beneficial structural and hydrophobic properties. However, mold-based fabrication methods for biocomposites require tooling and limit the possible shapes. We introduce a novel method for directly 3D printing mycelium biocomposites without the need for molds or tooling. Our method comprises three main contributions: Mycofluid, a mycelium-inoculated paste that uses spent coffee grounds, a recycled biomass; Fungibot, a custom hardware system for 3D printing biopastes like Mycofluid; and a method for incubating mycelial growth within fresh 3D prints resulting in mycelium biocomposite parts. We illustrate our contributions through a series of objects showcasing our method and the material qualities of the parts. Notably, we demonstrate how living mycelium can fuse separate prints, enabling complex geometries that are otherwise challenging to 3D print as one part.</p>","PeriodicalId":54341,"journal":{"name":"3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing","volume":"12 2","pages":"98-111"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12038323/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elena Petruzzi, Alexandros Tsamis, Chaitanya Ullal
{"title":"Toward a Digital Design Framework for the Thermal Tunability of 3D Printed Envelopes.","authors":"Elena Petruzzi, Alexandros Tsamis, Chaitanya Ullal","doi":"10.1089/3dp.2023.0356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2023.0356","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Large-scale extrusion-based additive manufacturing (AM) has emerged as a potential alternative for construction, addressing the challenges associated with the high carbon footprint of the building industry. Although AM enables the creation of intricate design geometries through controlled material deposition, providing innovative solution strategies for design construction, large-scale 3D printed structures are limited to a single homogeneous material, such as cement or clay, and their functionality is restricted to load-bearing formwork. Although still at a nascent stage for building construction, multimaterial additive manufacturing (MMAM) has emerged as a promising technology for the industry to overcome this limitation and reduce the embodied carbon of 3D printed structures by limiting the use of structural materials through topology optimization strategies. MMAM enables the fabrication of functionally graded materials (FGMs) by controlling the extrusion ratio between two or more distinct materials, resulting in building envelopes with multiple performance characteristics and functions. While research has focused on improving the structural performance of 3D-printed envelopes through MMAM, limited attention has been given to optimizing thermal performance and energy efficiency. An increasing interest in thermal energy storage technologies for buildings using the latent heat storage capacity of microencapsulated phase change materials (mPCMs) is related to the advantages of improving energy efficiency using materials that can absorb, store, and release heat when their temperature changes. To this end, this study proposes an FGM design-to-construction methodology for large-scale structures that optimizes the thermal performance of 3D-printed envelopes by locally tuning the distribution of heterogeneous mixes of clay and mPCMs during the AM process. The results of the digital simulations and physical tests show that the local optimization of mPCM and clay within the wall thickness according to the specific temperature differential can provide annual energy reductions compared with a homogeneously printed envelope without embedded mPCM.</p>","PeriodicalId":54341,"journal":{"name":"3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing","volume":"12 2","pages":"131-140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12038320/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144058621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nof Nathansohn, Elisheva Gillis, Gitit Linker, Noa Zermati, Adi Segal, Danny Freedman, Rebecca Hila Partook, Or Naim
{"title":"To Grow a Building: Soil and Seeds 3D-Printing.","authors":"Nof Nathansohn, Elisheva Gillis, Gitit Linker, Noa Zermati, Adi Segal, Danny Freedman, Rebecca Hila Partook, Or Naim","doi":"10.1089/3dp.2023.0357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2023.0357","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Imagine a world in which architecture will be 3D printed from living materials. That buildings will germinate, bloom, wither, produce new kinds of materials, and return back to the soil. This article introduces an innovative approach to sustainable architecture, through the utilization of 3D-printed structures crafted from locally sourced soil and plant seeds. After printing, the seeds germinate over time, forming load-bearing designs with interwoven root systems, which exhibit remarkable strength and resilience, reducing reliance on conventional construction materials. The research evaluates the mechanical properties of 3D-printed living structures through a set of material experiments to find a material combination that will allow maximum growth within 3D-printed architectural scale objects. The successful pilot project demonstrated their strength and capacity to support plant growth. The study also addresses the esthetic, cultural, and social dimensions of this novel fabrication technique, offering personalized, native plant-based patterns, and fostering community engagement. In conclusion, this research underscores the transformative potential of 3D-printed root-built structures as a sustainable architectural solution. By harnessing local soil and plant roots, these living constructions offer an eco-friendly alternative to conventional materials, with diverse environmental and social benefits. This study contributes to the evolving knowledge base of eco-conscious building practices, encouraging further exploration and adoption of nature-based solutions in architecture. With ongoing development, root-built buildings hold the promise of revolutionizing design, construction, and habitation, promoting a harmonious coexistence between humans and the natural environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":54341,"journal":{"name":"3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing","volume":"12 2","pages":"77-87"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12038324/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144062607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioreactors as Additive Manufacturing Environments.","authors":"Orkan Telhan","doi":"10.1089/3dp.2024.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2024.0023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses the evolving use of bioreactors, beyond traditional life sciences and bioengineering, in fields such as architecture, fashion, and product design. It explores the role of bioreactors in additive fabrication, highlighting their distinct characteristics compared with conventional digital manufacturing. The discussion is centered on the differences in materializing biologically-active (living) versus biologically-passive, or biologically-derived (nonliving) matter in which ingredients require closed-loop fabrication environments that differ from traditional additive manufacturing tools. Two novel biofabrication platforms, Microbial Design Studio and B | reactor are presented as examples with case studies demonstrating their use in various manufacturing workflows with live cells. The article emphasizes the unique capabilities of bioreactors in engaging with living matter and facilitating complex interactions between biological, algorithmic, and mechanical systems in additive manufacturing.</p>","PeriodicalId":54341,"journal":{"name":"3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing","volume":"12 2","pages":"169-180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12038321/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144060696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olga Beatrice Carcassi, Tashania Akemah, Lola Ben-Alon
{"title":"3D-Printed Lightweight Earth Fiber: From Tiles to Tessellations.","authors":"Olga Beatrice Carcassi, Tashania Akemah, Lola Ben-Alon","doi":"10.1089/3dp.2023.0341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2023.0341","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>3D-printed earth materials that incorporate natural raw soils have been recently emerging due to their ecological and affordability potential. However, earth materials applications in additive manufacturing have been limited to thick mass assemblies with little to no fiber reinforcement. The addition of natural plant fibers within earth-based mixtures may advantageously increase ductility while allowing for lightweight assembly types, such as thin and perforated elements. This article presents a novel research development on natural, raw, and untreated earth-fiber compositions with maximized wheat straw fiber content for 3D-printed lightweight architectural tiling applications. Initiated with an experimental printability apparatus of a range of mix designs, a printable \"light straw clay\" mixture is defined through extrudability and buildability tests. Then, combining the digital craft of weaving with natural fibers for earthen lightweight artifacts, a geometric analysis explores potential super lightweight and structurally sound tessellations to allow for minimum material in the production of perforated panels. The third phase of the research included structural bending tests to assess the number of layers required for the final tile production. Finally, the resulting 3D-printed modular components were assembled to create a lightweight installation, hung and exhibited with an interplay of light and shade. By maximizing co-product vegetable fiber content within an earthen and bio-based paste, this research aims to increase the carbon storage capabilities of digital earth construction while enhancing its lightness and tensile possibilities. Learning from vernacular \"recipes\" of natural earth- and fiber-based construction, the developed paper-thin partition assemblage presented in this article contributes to wider possibilities of natural, nonconventional, and radically low-carbon material systems and geometries in digital fabrication.</p>","PeriodicalId":54341,"journal":{"name":"3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing","volume":"12 2","pages":"88-97"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12038327/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giulia Pelliccia, Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, David Correa
{"title":"Four-Dimensional Multistep Vertical Printing for Hygroresponsive Shape Change with Nonplanar Rest-State Geometries.","authors":"Giulia Pelliccia, Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci, David Correa","doi":"10.1089/3dp.2023.0337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2023.0337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Four-dimensional printing (4DP) via fused deposition modeling has been used to create hygromorphic biocomposite actuators through wood polymer composite (WPC) filaments. The shape-change transformation of the 4DP composite mechanism is preprogrammed by controlling the printing process parameters and the design of the print-path pattern. Until now, most 4DP approaches involving Wood Polymer Composite (WPCs) have focused on planar actuators featuring a bilayer structure composed of laminar layers with distinct material properties. These mechanisms show a laminar initial rest state, presenting as flat objects, and can only achieve a complex three-dimensional shape when subjected to the moisture variations stimulus. The presented research highlights the development of a multistage printing method that expands the capabilities of three-axis printers to enable the 4DP of mechanism with complex nonplanar rest-state geometries. The new technical capabilities of this method are demonstrated here through the creation and testing of novel nonlaminar 4DP mechanisms that harness their unique doubly curved rest-state geometry to achieve kinematic amplification. We expect that this approach can greatly improve the range and complexity of 4DP mechanisms that can be developed using the commonly available three-axis printers.</p>","PeriodicalId":54341,"journal":{"name":"3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing","volume":"12 2","pages":"141-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12038350/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143991900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Paul Nicholas, Ruxandra-Stefania Chiujdea, Stine Dalager Nielsen, Konrad Sonne, Carl Eppinger
{"title":"Additive Manufacturing for Repair: Continual Construction Through Bio-Based Materials.","authors":"Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Paul Nicholas, Ruxandra-Stefania Chiujdea, Stine Dalager Nielsen, Konrad Sonne, Carl Eppinger","doi":"10.1089/3dp.2023.0344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2023.0344","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article asks how additive manufacturing for the circular bioeconomy can create the foundation for rethinking the architectural axioms of permanence and durability, instead moving us toward a new ideal of renewability and repair. It presents a case study into additive manufacturing for repair through the 3D printing of biopolymer composites. This case study connects machine vision-based surveying of damaged panels with repair through conformal 3D printing. This deployment of bio-based materials aims to enable additive manufacturing as a method for disrupting the sharp delineation between fabrication and repair leading to new practices of continual construction. With point of departure in our bespoke systems for 3D printing and unique biopolymer composites, we examine how their particular material characteristics allow for material adhesion and buildup and how novel methods for iterative 3D printing can support design integrated strategies of repair. As part of this process, we include the sociotechnological dimension, as human-in-the-loop decision-making becomes part of the material surveying regimes necessary for damage detection. The article demonstrates processes of repair through three repair actions that address different kinds of damage.</p>","PeriodicalId":54341,"journal":{"name":"3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing","volume":"12 2","pages":"112-121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12038328/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144056634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}