Architects and designers have utilized 3D printing technology as
part of their work for many years, but it is only now that an
architect has come forward with a design for an actual,
habitable residence using that same technology. Dutch architect
Janjaap Ruijssenaars of Universe Architects has designed a
residence in collaboration with mathematician and artist Rinus
Roelofs that they hope to begin construction on using a 3D
printer by 2014. The design for the building, the Landscape
House, has been getting as much curiosity as the mode by which
the designers plan to produce it. Based on the concept of a
Moebius Strip – a single length of any material that forms a
continuous loop with just one side – the Landscape House takes
the form of a twisted but continuous loop in which the floor
becomes the ceiling and the ceiling the floor. Ruijssenaars
explains that he and his colleagues at Universe Architects first
became fascinated with the concept after being inspired by the
scenery they saw when in Ireland in 2009