Gracias a la startup finlandesa Platonics, ya puede adquirirse Ark, la primera impresora 3D del mundo manufacturada para arquitectos.
Con esta innovación tecnológica podremos recuperar, de manera práctica, una de las ventajas de la era análogica de la proyectación arquitectónica: acompañar el dibujo de las ideas con la construcción de modelos (volumetrías) que simplifiquen / enriquezcan la capacidad de visualización del arquitecto.
En su nota de prensa de lanzamiento (en inglés) indican:
“… Introducing the Ark, the world’s first 3D printer for architects that brings scale models back to daily design work.
Helsinki, Finland, October 10, 2017
Platonics Ltd., the Finnish 3D printing company, today announced the availability of the company’s first product, Platonics Ark. The revolutionary 3D printer is designed especially to make architects’ every day life easier, faster, and more creative. Platonics Ark is a result of years of background research and development done together with architects and architecture offices.
The core mission of Platonics Ltd. is to make 3D printing easy, efficient and fast for architects, and other 3D printing enthusiasts. The company’s engineers, developers, designers and business people all share the same passion for architecture and design, and have years of experience in manufacturing 3D printers, developing software, and designing products.
The research & development of Platonics Ark has included 1,027 conversations with architects all over the world and an intensive piloting period with the leading architecture offices in Finland, including Ala Architects, JKMM, Lunden Architecture Company, Serum Architects Ltd., Verstas, and Studio Puisto.
Platonics Ark is set to improve communication and design decisions for architects by reintroducing scale models to the daily design work. …” (Texto completo de la nota de prensa disponible aquí)
Esta impresora acepta archivos en los principales formatos de CAD e indican que su manejo resulta bastante intuitivo.
Ark ya puede adquirirse, con substanciales descuentos por encontrarse aún en proceso de “crowdfunding“, vía Indiegogo.
Más acerca de Platonics en su Blog: “… How a Finnish startup decided to change the architecture world with 3D printing …”
Platonics Ark: The first 3D printer for architects.
Easy, fast and efficient 3D printing directly from Archicad, Revit, Rhino, Vectorworks and Sketchup.
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