The team that built the 230,000-sq-ft addition to the American Museum of Natural History pulled all the stops to create a lobby atrium that evokes a canyon.
One goal of the research is to identify optimum design patterns from native materials that can be used for 3D-printed horizontal construction at remote sites.
To reduce project cost and schedule length while addressing the skilled labor shortage, many owners and contractors are moving work from the construction site to a fabrication facility.