This is a great article about rapid prototyping automotive. Before my eyes the building materializes rapidly as layer upon layer of concrete is laid down, each strata squeezed out of a huge nozzle as if from a gigantic rapid prototyping automotive part. This is not the construction of an actual house - not yet, anyway.

What I am watching is an animation of the way in which houses of the future may be built. Known as Contour Crafting, the process is the brainchild of a advanced system, With rapid prototyping automotive it’s believed that his technology will make it possible to build a house from foundation to roof in less than 24 hours:

"Our goal," he says, "is to be able to completely construct a one-storey 185-square-metre home on site in one day, without using human hands." With this system the entire building process would be automated using robotic equipment brought in. Whole enclaves could be built in weeks - just add cement and press the start key. But while the process itself is robotic, The rapid prototyping automotive system also has said that each house could be a unique design. Indeed, he sees his technology as a way to make individually tailored houses practical and affordable on a wide scale.

The machines the professor has designed can create any kind of three-dimensional structures, from simple cubes and boxes to domes, cylinders and cones, and even irregular curves. "Architects love this technology," he tells me. Structures that have never before been possible suddenly become as easy as rapid prototyping automotive