It All Adds Up

Landscape architects will need to balance 3D printing’s utility with carbon footprints.

BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER

TECHNOLOGY Lindsey Heller sees a lot of potential for 3D printing in landscape architecture. “I don’t know how you couldn’t be excited about this technology,” she says. Heller, a longtime principal at Land Morphology, recently founded her own firm, SKAPA, in Seattle. “As a designer having close to 25 years of [experience in] landscape construction, there are a lot of questions I feel like I could answer using this technology.”As just one example, Heller pulled up a photo of a stormwater planter, the kind increasingly required on small sites by Seattle’s stringent stormwater code, that she printed. “We used bagged QUIKRETE from Home Depot and bottled water. Within three hours, I had designed, modeled, and printed a stormwater feature where not a single radius or vertical [was] the same,” she says.…

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