jaue2021-006: A Review on Development of 3D Spatial Printing Technology in Robotic Architecture

Abstract

3D spatial printing(3DSP) represented a novel fabrication method by applying FDM 3D printing technology to achieve 3D spatial structure. Along with the innovation of 3D printing technology and wide application of robotic arms in the architecture and construction sector in recent years, integrating these two advanced technologies becomes available. By doing so, the scale-ability and flexibility of 3DSP technology have effectively increased. A broad view of customizable, flexible building components and installations that are built by robotic arm in a rapid and compact procedure, has enabled. To achieve this prospective vision, reshaping and clarification of concepts, clear classification, and formulation of its future potential is rather a crucial step to responding to current innovations. This paper seeks to provide an extensive background of the 3DSP fabrication method and the potential usages, advantages, and risks in the architecture and construction sector. By collectively reading and sorting related cases, articles, and reports in the last 10 years, and form up a timeline to tracing the path of development for 3DSP technology, build up a catalog, and identify the current state of related technology. Then, by concluding those highlighted 3DSP approaches in related articles, to speculate the future development of them through analyzing the application difficulty and setback. As well as to discover the possibilities of the future role for this fabrication system.