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of a real house
Think Sustainable
We are
still there
for you!
As of October 2014, the
Metabolix GmbH team in Cologne
is part of the Feddersen Group.
As an AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH branch,
we are operating under the name
BIO-FED with immediate effect.
Nothing – other than the name –
will change for our customers!
The team you are familiar with
at the Cologne location will still
be there to assist and advise you,
and will also be happy to continue
supplying you with our “mvera”
product portfolio.
structural capacities of the printed pieces, secondly it will
also act as a connecting material to join separate pieces
together. The concrete mix includes lightweight aggregates
in an attempt to keep the weight and material consumption
to a minimum. The first block, which forms one corner of the
house and part of a stairway, weighed around 180 kilograms
(without the concrete).
“The 3D Print Canal House is a unique project because it is
a building site, a museum and a research facility in one,” says
Hans Vermeulen. “By 3D printing the first building block we
celebrate the start of researching the possibilities of digital
fabrication for the building industry.” The research project will
take three years. Hedwig Heinsman of DUS: “We hope that
in three years time the excitement of the visitors is still as
fresh as today, and that the house has developed into a mature
3D printed building with different rooms, each with different
constructions and material properties that all tell something
about the time that they were printed. And (we hope) that
the 3D Print Canal House becomes a permanent place for
pioneering activities in design and architecture.” MT
www.3dprintcanalhouse.com
www.dusarchitects.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAoW1iA385w
BIO-FED
Branch of AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH
BioCampus Cologne · Nattermannallee 1
50829 Cologne · Germany
Phone: +49 221 88 8894-00
Fax: +49 221 88 88 94-99
info@bio-fed.com
www.bio-fed.com
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