GXN Innovation, an independent research subsidiary of Danish architecture firm 3XN, has launched ‘Break the Grid’, a new initiative exploring how to make 3D printers autonomously mobile. Collaborating with the Danish AM Hub, Denmark’s platform for digital and additive manufacturing, and MAP Architects, a Copenhagen-based architectural design studio, the research program will seek to create ne ways to use autonomous 3D pronters. One application might be to target micro-cracks in concrete; a starting point for further damage in concrete structures as water and oxygen enter the cracks and corrode the reinforcement. Drones could find microcracks and inject a self-healing grout to seal them.
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