Working on a design for a living building facade system - integrated green wall & rainwater capture, 3D-printed from 100% post-consumer plastic. This material has been tricky to perfect, but I’m getting there. Cheap & durable enough for building-scale outdoor applications.

I installed the first big outdoor green wall in NYC at the upper east side Pure Yoga. The wall was 4 stories tall making access to its face challenging. Maintenance is really needed weekly at a minimum and the lack of built-in access led to high costs and an unhealthy wall.

Yes totally matches what I’ve seen. My goal here with the design is that the green facade is supported with water & nutrients from the large soil mass at the core pf the wall; basically like building-integrated hugelkultur.

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Possible to stagger the layers vertically for better waterproofing?

this is cool

The process has been a labor of love, but it’s getting close to the point of creating arbitrary giant complex objects. Come scheme sometime!

Raspberry pi controlled extruder 💪

90% of the automation R&D game is ripping out the stock compute so you can do interesting things with your own software!

where is this? can i come see it?

Yes any time, up near Sea Ranch

Can you print with clay?

Yes but would have to build/buy a clay extruder.