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Among the 3D-printed homes realized and published in the past few years, this Traditional House of the Future by Lidia Ratoi + John Lin stands out for grace, pragmatism, and sensitivity to its context. The protoype was built in in a mountainous province in southwest China. I will quote here from the architects' text, as reported by @framemagazine and @archdaily. "The project is part of a government plan in Nanlong Village, Guizhou Province, China, where hundreds of wooden houses are dilapidated and abandoned." It "proposes strategies for recycling and revitalizing vernacular houses, following up research on how self-builders are transforming their own houses as a response to the urbanization of rural China." "The research demonstrates the necessity to evolve and adapt the traditional wooden house, incorporating modern amenities with flexible spatial organizations resulting from changes in livelihood." "The original house was scanned, and robotically printed walls were customized to incorporate the original structure, making it possible to design new spaces... Local villagers dismantled and reconditioned the original structure, and once the walls were 3D printed, they were able to recycle and reassemble it into the new house." Ratoi and Lin are based at the University of Hong Kong. The onsite 3D printing is by Xu Weiguo / Tsinghua University. All images, © Rui Rui Deng, Motong Yang, Chang Liu #design #architecture #3dprinting #3dprintedarchitecture #rural #chinesearchitecture