Shifting Scales: Contemporary Applications and Design Guidelines for Polymer-based Large-Format 3D Printing
Shifting Scales: Contemporary Applications and Design Guidelines for Polymer-based Large-Format 3D Printing
Speaker:
Louis Lamont
Summary:
As the built environment faces mounting pressure to decarbonise, polymer-based Large-Format 3D Printing offers a promising pathway to enable distributed manufacturing, reduce material waste, and practically deploy circular economy principles. Large-Format Additive Manufacturing (LFAM) is no longer an emerging technology, but a maturing industry reshaping how we design, manufacture, and think about materials at scale. This talk traces the expanding applications of polymer-based LFAM across architecture, construction, and industrial contexts, charting a field that is rapidly moving from prototype to production. The next generation of designers must not only understand these technologies, but also how to design for them.
This talk was delivered online on 19 May 2026. Talk duration is 52 minutes.
Speaker Bio:
Louis is co-founder and Technical Lead at Composite Sydney, an architecturally focused digital fabrication and large-format additive manufacturing studio. He is also an MPhil candidate at Arch Manu, researching digital twin integration for large format 3D printing. His work sits at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, material systems, and architectural design.
CPD Details:
This talk is offered as a formal CPD activity for architects, mapped to performance criteria PC28 and PC39 in the Australian 2021 National Standard of Competencies for Architects.
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