3D Printed Design for Dutch Design Week: Bio-Inclusive Column

Sustainable Column Design at Dutch Design Week 2024
This modular concrete column, featured at DDW 2024, blends digital fabrication, sustainability, and urban ecology. Designed in collaboration with TU Eindhoven and printed by Vertico, it reimagines the classical column as a living, evolving surface.
How It Works: Designed for Urban Biodiversity
Each 3D printed segment supports insect life, moss, and birds through embedded textures and grooves—replacing traditional ornament with function. It’s a new take on classical rhythm, merging sustainable architecture with bio-integrative thinking.

Modular Architecture Meets Robotic Fabrication
Inspired by ancient stacked columns, this project utilizes 3D printed modules, pigmented for aesthetic flow and built without formwork. Explore more on Vertico’s 3D concrete printer technology.
Collaborators
- Design & Computation: Nikolett Ásványi, Mattia Zucco, Cristina Nan
- Fabrication: Vertico
- TU/e Built Environment Faculty & students: Loy Xin Yi, Maria Verhulst Babb, Maia Klich
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