Collapse of Monopoly
3DP Micro-factory is a de-centralised bottom-up ‘MAKERS UNION’ set up in the centre of the city. It is an anti-monopoly factory and market orientated organisation.
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3D printing (3DP) is coming of age and beginning to disrupt manufacturing.
3DP will bring about a revolution. Because it is based on a fundamentally different logic from the current mass-production model with a potentially more responsive demand-and-supply mechanism that results in a new relationship between “making” and “consumption”.
Taking the vehicle industry as an area of study, the project speculates on how this hypothetical revolution may unfold in technical aspects through the ‘aggregation factory’,in social aspects through the ‘micro-factory’,and in urban aspect through ‘vanishing factory’.
3DP Micro-factory is a de-centralised bottom-up ‘MAKERS UNION’ set up in the centre of the city. It is an anti-monopoly factory and market orientated organisation.
In aggregation factory, productivity is redefined as number of working modules. Mono-functional supply system and repetitive working cells purely pursue the maximum productivity.
The role of factory run as a production machine is gradually losing its importance, while micro-factory as an experience centre plays more important role to the context.
3DP on one hand is contributing to the vanishing of traditional factories, on the other hand it can be read as a part of urban facilities
With the advent of 3DP, the industry such as vehicle manufactory could be brought back into our cities, so could other industries. Within this scenario where production is geographically and logistically re-organised around consumption, 3DP factories could emerge as a new architectural typology that everyone could use to print their vehicles, their clothing, their household appliances or even their houses.
With the advent of 3DP, the industry such as vehicle manufactory could be brought back into our cities, so could other industries. Within this scenario where production is geographically and logistically re-organised around consumption, 3DP factories could emerge as a new architectural typology that everyone could use to print their vehicles, their clothing, their household appliances or even their houses.
Micro-factory changes the mono-functional nature of traditional factories by mix programming and decentralisation, because 3DP requires less space for production and can coexist side-by-side with the space of consumption.
In aggregation factory, productivity is redefined as number of working modules. Mono-functional supply system and repetitive working cells purely pursue the maximum productivity.
