Rapid Protoyping in Ice

“At McGill University (Montréal, Québec) engineers and architects are working together to explore the possibilities of rapid prototyping (RP) systems for construction with ice.

Ice structures built by the FAB@HOME desktop rapid prototyping machine.

In 2006, Professors Pieter Sijpkes (School of Architecture) and Jorge Angeles (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Centre for Intelligent Machines) received a three-year $173,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) research creation grant for a project entitled New Architecture of Phase Change: Computer-Assisted Ice Construction. Based in the School of Architecture, this three-year study focuses on computer-controlled techniques for constructing objects at varying scales out of ice.”

Read more about the Computer-Assisted Ice Construction Project here.