Though the home only consists of two rooms, the project will make history as the first to be entirely 3D printed using locally sourced clay.

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Italian architect Mario Cucinella of Mario Cucinella Architects ( MC A ) has long been a champion of 3D printing technology. But while architecture students and firms commonly reserve space of their desks for a 3D printer to create high-fidelity scale models as communicative tools, Cucinella has set his sights much higher than the rest.

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Last September, printing began on the architect’s first prototype of a two-room house in Massa Lombarda, a quiet comune east of Bologna, Italy . Named TECLA in a nod to an imaginary place in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities , the home was engineered by Italian company WASP to become the very first to be entirely printed from a locally-sourced clay that is both biodegradable and […]

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