One of the challenges we face when thinking about developing off-Earth settlements is what resources we could use to build our habitats – after all, we can't efficiently ship loads of concrete or ...

Some things are easier to 3-D print than others. We know, for example, that we can 3-D print pierogi molds no problem. But engineers have been trying to crack the 3-D printed house for quite some time ...

We've previously seen designers use the presence of swimming pools or take advantage of prevailing winds to help passively cool homes. But what if every brick used to build a house could cool it down?

What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled ...

For anyone casually strolling along the luxury boutiques on central Amsterdam’s high-end shopping street, the storefront at 32 P.C. Hooftstraat might not immediately stand out. Like its neighbors, the ...

A human settlement on planet Mars as well as the moon requires infrastructure to sustain life and habitats. Now, as one innovation that could help make this vision come true, scientists have produced ...

Hey, 3D printing obsessives, still looking for that killer app? Well, look over here! Maybe this killer app could help kill climate change. Check out these cool 3D-printed bricks (seriously, they’re ...

Scientists at ESA have successfully 3D printed bricks using simulated moondust and a solar furnace, an advance that could allow humans to build settlements on the Moon in the future. “We took ...

Bricks have been 3D-printed out of simulated moondust using concentrated sunlight – a technique which help future lunar colonists create homes. Researchers baked the moon bricks using a solar furnace ...