The irony of one of the example for stone building being the pantheon in Rome, the largest free standing non reinforced concrete structure in the world
The pantheon was built with more than just concrete though, it had every material you could imagine including bricks, pottery shards, and stone. The columns along the portico were cut from Egyptian granite and there are plenty of marble panels, columns, and entablatures within the Pantheon that survive today that were all carved by hand.
@@Picsou313 most buildings throughout human history are going to be boring because 1. they're built to serve a purpose, not to be monuments that last forever 2. humans get used to what's around them, our current world will look alien to someone from 1000 years ago and vice versa
glass and steel towers built in the past decades will be demolished. But many beautiful buildings built in the early 20th century will be around for hundreds of years... thanks to people like him.
@@Hiro_Trevelyan France, England, Germany architecture is what we need to go back to, many parts of the east coast have that feel , but Id love it if we can pick one or two architecture types and stick to it🥲Make it uniform throughout the country. I personally love Art Deco, a perfect blend of modern and ancient in a way
Part of the greatness of European cities is also that they were made for pedestrian societies and not for cars. So, the cities are made from the perspective of people who walked from place to place on the streets. We need to also adjust our city infrastructure to prioritize pedestrians.
@@dabrams84we can't make them completely car free, what we need is the System of superblocks. We can make superblocks pedestrian friendly but IT need to be car centric outside
Love this! the one bad thing about the brown sandstone that was used a lot in NY City, was it started to be used on facades around the 1850s-1860s on the so called "brownstone" buildings, was that they discovered very quickly- that this stone started to deteriorate rapidly when exposed to the weather, rain, freezing rain, snow, ice. Sandstone is a sedemenray rock that forms in layers like rings in a tree, it has a "grain" like wood does, and a lot of the blocks of stone, keystones etc were placed with the grain vertically and parallel to the facade, so what happens is water gets in, freezes and layers of the stone start spalling and flaking off. There's lots of sandstone keystones that had faces and grotesques carved in them that are completely gone due to the spalling, and what is left on the surface is very crumbly. Limestone faired much better, but acid rain causes damage and a "sandblasted" appearance. Kiln fired terracotta came out in use in the city around the late 1870s, there were riots from stone masons over it and they claimed it would never last and only STONE would last, they were proven WRONG quickly and terracotta on facades too over like a wildfire. As a collector of those artifacts from demolition sites starting as a teen in the 1970s, I saved terracotta keystones and things that were 100 years old in perfect, mint condition, even the original tooling marks in the sculpture could be seen, as could the clay presser's fingerprints and finger marks inside the hollow cavities in the back- they were made hollow and from the back resemble concrete blocks that way. The terracotta was hand pressed clay, formed in plaster piece molds and finish detailed by hand. Too bad we cant post pictures in comments, but I have a book on Amazon with numerous pictures of buildings in Manhattan that no longer exist, and many more photos of the sculptures that came off the facades, at one point I had 50 tons worth stored in several lofts. The 298 page book is titled; "The Gargoyler of Greenwich Village" ISBN-10 0578533871 The cover photo shows several white limestone keystones, and a couple of other stone (not sandstone) keystones and some terracotta too
The reporters in the last minute sound clueless on what they are talking about 😂. Sounds like a high school presentation making up stuff on the spot and saying random buzzwords to make this seem revolutionary and inclusive.
Now you know, that's their actual level of competency when the script is not there. If you ever worked with a major corporate media reporter, especially if you are a subject matter expert in something, you would be shocked. It makes you question everything you ever learned.
@@ecoro_ Yeah, sometimes I'd watch people watching the news after a segment and the only purpose for the talk at the end is to make you feel like you align or agree with those reporters.
I’m glad to see this being talked publicly in North America but this have been used for at least 15 years in Europe. There is no novelty to it, it’s just a lack of vision from investors and architects.
Exactly. As much as it pains me to admit it, the architecture professor is right when he says that this will be limited to historical preservation projects. The ones in power are the architects, and unfortunately the architectural community is a bunch of extremely narrow-minded snobs whom have collectively decided that this type of ”traditional” and ”classic” architecture is nothing but pastiche.
I’ve studied and worked in the stone carving industry for 10 years. They made the mistake of making it an expensive material lowering the demand, the low demand created low margin that weren’t compensated by the high price. Stone is actually cheap to produce and can be found all around. The problem is that there isn’t any large scale or modern transformation factories most of them are highly inefficient compared to wood or concrete. When I was a CNC programmer 10 years ago, I was using floppy disk to load my programs in the machines and a year after I changed career the company I was working for closed.
When I was studying in France, there was research groups showing you could replace concrete by stone in mid size apartment buildings. A stone and wood mixed building would have a really low carbon footprint. You would just have the fondations made out of concrete
@@benjamingranet581 This a tragic reality for a lot of crafts and repairs, here in Sweden the knowledge on how to repair old thing are disappearing so a lot of things must be made new and old thrown away and it's such a waste.
The professor is right, once you factor in mining + transportation costs + limited suppliers who can control the quantity and price of stone, you're probably gonna end up with a cost that's much less attractive than what's already on the market (glass, steel, etc). No way would it be economically feasible to transport stone across long distances, so stone-based building projects will probably have to be closer to the quarry. Developers are going to opt in for the materials that will yield them the best profit in their projects. But still good to see a use for it in historical/specialty architecture!
Plus for large scale projects, it is just unfeasible and unyielding. Much easier to add a floor or change a floor plan on a steel structure vs a stone building.
The professor may be wrong. Once labor cost fall due to automation (AI, millions of humanoid robots) and the main cost is energy then stone may actually be CHEAPER to use than concrete + steel, because it's simpler and uses less energy. Possibly a new era of LEGO buildings that last much longer and look much better.
@@kazioo2Right. Autonomous and remote construction, delivery etc is not far off at all. Cost of fuel and labour will be almost entirely avoided with an electric vehicle + bot fleet.
@@Honest_Abe1So basically the same thing as here :D Here it's also the artist that does the detailing, which is commendable as it provides jobs for humans as well, only the TV station trying to spin it that way that it's the robot that does the job
@@pawelabrams it's a matter of improving precision. There is not point for using human sculptors in the long term, unless desired for purely ideological reason ("handmade").
I love this! I always loved the stone carved buildings in Amsterdam, the elaborate doorways, so beautiful. Some of those beautiful houses also have stone carvings on the ceilings inside, they might even be able to do details like this too. And for modern design it makes so much more possible. I was wondering if they thought of using hempcrete? I heard it's really strong and better for the environment as well. I love this innovative thinking and to be honest I've never been a fan of the "cold" steel and glass buildings myself, I prefer ornamental. It's nice to let your eyes wander around a building like that and ponder the flowing shapes, there's a soothing quality to it to me.
Most of the antique stone architecture was Stone Cast. Many of the sculptures where duplicated with Molds and a concrete mixture was poured into the mold to form the part. It is still a low cost solution to stone architecture. It is fine if the guy wants to purchase a 7 axis robot for 500k. The old stone casting method could produce better detail for a lot less cost.
I'm afraid the professor is right. I hope the startup keeps filling the niche market of repairs on historic structures and doesn't try to expand too fast and fail/disappear. Those old buildings need fixing up!
@@Art-is-craft I mean, I would love for cities around the world to have beautiful stone facades. But as the professor pointed out, the major cost is materials. And we live in the age of austerity and budget cuts. This will have a hard time taking off. But I hope I'm wrong!
Nope, just the raw materials alone would cost you way more, not to mention the electrical parts. If you can make anything remotely like that in size for less than 100k you'll be a millionaire in a week
I do question if this will be the future. The cost of working stone will always be higher. It is very innovative to bring in CNC technologies to Machine the stone as if it were a piece of metal. It certainly does greatly reduce the cost by removing the need for hundreds of hours of skilled artist labor and turning it in to dozens of hours of Machine time. But speaking as someone with a few years of Machining experience, it isn't as if Machining itself is a cheap or inexpensive venture. It isn't. Especially if you are constantly doing bespoke, one-off pieces that require designing and programming each time (which is what is being suggested of the stone here). I suspect the cost of these Machined Stone pieces will be far lower than they traditionally would have been in the past, but still much more expensive than the current modern options of Concrete and steel. I don't think they will catch on for that reason.
Micah Springut of Monumental Labs, New York is nothing less than an impressive Trailblazer! There will always be naysayers, as was the Architecture Professor that gave his counter opinion. We just need to look at the spectacularly built & craved stone building of the past! How long have they endured, in all weather conditions?? Will the steel/metal & glass buildings that are currently standing still be here unscathed in 200 - 500 years like many in Europe? This brave entrepreneur is a likewise dreamer, innovator, artist, etc - like the similar, famous or not, predecessors of the past! Congratulations to him & much success in his future!! **Please do a 3-5 year follow up!!
This definitely seems like it will mainly be used for historical restoration first and foremost, with some small entrance into the luxury markets, I can definitely see some major corporation or eccentric multimillionaire/billionaire ordering a large ornate stone construction. The vast majority of the dirty commoners won't be living or working in stone buildings anytime soon.
This is fantastic. Not only will it make new buildings more durable and attractive, but it will also help reduce the costs of maintaining and restoring period properties.
I didn't know him of course, but I think Gaudi would be ok with the rough work being curved out with these robots, and the finer touches of the Sagrada Família finalized by hand.
Works if you want fast and cheap but it won't last centuries (or millennia) like stone does. There'll never be 5,000 year old cement pieces but we have marble and granite pieces that old and more. Even limestone is far more durable then cement. The pyramids would be a pile of sand and gravel.
@@bipolarcollie but there are other examples of enduring concrete like the Pantheon, albeit people have attempted to recreate the chemistry for centuries now. But I agree. Also you cannot reuse concrete mold unless there are no overhangs or they are highly complicated.
Honestly I could see this in stages of mold, use this for subtractive work, hand touch ups. Get the 80-90% as fast as possible, then add detail where it matters.
finally beautiful stones on The Rise again most things should be made to last centuries and look pretty instead of some glass metal plastic crap that you tear down and rebuild every few decades, profit is not the sole value human should be pursuing
I think almost everyone wants traditional building techniques brought back. Problem is architects want horrible crazy buildings that bring them recognition. For them it is more about the concept then beauty or comfort.
Society needs a philosophy that drives art and creativity. That is we get a return. The renaissance was a rebirth of Classical Roman design. It was achieved by study Roman design. All the information is out there for it to take off.
This is the sort of thing I wanted automation to be used for.. making impractical or difficult things we really want to have or do, practical. Can't wait to see new traditional buildings. Glass is ok, but if you've seen one glass building, you've seen them all.. and they're kind of bland, lose heat like a sieve, and don't respect the region's style or culture at all. This stonecutting technique could genuinely have huge impacts as people look from glass for style to stone ornamentation.
Well its not like they are making new buildings there. They are doing replacements for old damaged pieces. Something that I would like to ask is why is that Kula robot used on a flat piece? Is it because they just invested in the most versatile machine, so they don't have to buy different machines for different jobs?
At the end of the segment we saw various sculptures that could be made using the robot carver. It's not just for making ornamental replacement parts. That's why they talked about Michelangelo using robots in his studio.
For anyone that's curious, I have a similar industrial robot in my backyard. My budget was considerably less than the $300-400k USD quoted here. I use it for milling stone. I only have one video up so far but will have more up this summer.
watching thsi makes me truly appreciate how our ancestors built ajantan and ellora caves temples out of a sindle monolith stone with no advanced tools back then,
Love Love Love! Hopefully ROI doesn't get in the way, but at the end of the day the cost makes it way down to the consumer, so hopefully there are people out there willing to pay the price to live in art, or, investors willing to eat the cost. But amazing startup nonetheless
I am very supportive with this reiterated and revisioned methods o've ornate stone manufacturing ! However , it would be undermined should Manhattan , Bronx and Brooklyn , that presently have excessive amounts o've large buildings , and excessive amount o've concrete through out , are not demolished ! Redesigning commerce and residential areas consisting o've lavish lawns adorned with weather friendly fruit trees , along with a Hydroponic tropical fruit Cultivating District , objectively maintaining a true Macys Thanksgiving parade . While Custard apples and Mamay fruits are abundant in Miami , A baseball or abandoned gun manufacturing facility would work ideally for such endeavors !
The irony of one of the example for stone building being the pantheon in Rome, the largest free standing non reinforced concrete structure in the world
Agrippa would be [proud
The pantheon was built with more than just concrete though, it had every material you could imagine including bricks, pottery shards, and stone. The columns along the portico were cut from Egyptian granite and there are plenty of marble panels, columns, and entablatures within the Pantheon that survive today that were all carved by hand.
That is why the Roman architects were the master concrete builders.
The Romans had *underwater concrete* settting.
It's only gone worse since then.
I thought a bigger irony was looking at that crappy Brookfield joint with completely featureless polished stone on nothing but the steps.
@@AudieHolland Uhhh u aint ever seen em just throw a bunch of unopened concrete packs onto a riverside? would that not set well?
I'm 10000% for this, the beauty in stone is amazing!
FINALLY SOMEBODY TRYING TO BRING BACK BEAUTY IN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
Bro thats not American architecture it is indian architecture which is copied by that firm and provide services there
The architect schools and professor will fight against it because they're following the Marxist doctrine.
@@kayasth01 its not indian, india stole it from the khmer empire
@@kayasth01 Nah i just meant architecture in america not from america
@@kayasth01bro it was stolen form the Roman Empire
This is incredible. Bring back beautiful architecture!
Yeaaaah! Finally!!!!!
beautiful architecture is already here 🥱
@@nick_0no. Modern architecture is boring
@@Picsou313 most buildings throughout human history are going to be boring because 1. they're built to serve a purpose, not to be monuments that last forever 2. humans get used to what's around them, our current world will look alien to someone from 1000 years ago and vice versa
@@Picsou313 how when there’s so many unique modern buildings? maybe cuz ur city sucks and all ur local buildings look the same
glass and steel towers built in the past decades will be demolished. But many beautiful buildings built in the early 20th century will be around for hundreds of years... thanks to people like him.
glass and steel better 🥱
@@nick_0 it's become excessively used unfortunately.
every era has its mass produced cheap buildings that will be demolished. for obvious reasons we don't see many from the past.
@@nick_0causing global warming.
@@__Man__Embarrassing drivel.
Yes!...Bring back beautiful architecture!
There’s something primal about a building you know could withstand a massive blast and stand for maybe thousands of years
Thank you thank you sir! I’ve long mourn the loss of artistic architechture. Glad to know companies like this exist! You are a hero!
We need more like that. Just came back from Paris, their buildings look a lot more beautiful than ours.
As a Parisian, thank you ! We tend to forget how beautiful our city is, until we visit others...
it's getting uglier here too...
@@Hiro_Trevelyan France, England, Germany architecture is what we need to go back to, many parts of the east coast have that feel , but Id love it if we can pick one or two architecture types and stick to it🥲Make it uniform throughout the country. I personally love Art Deco, a perfect blend of modern and ancient in a way
Part of the greatness of European cities is also that they were made for pedestrian societies and not for cars. So, the cities are made from the perspective of people who walked from place to place on the streets. We need to also adjust our city infrastructure to prioritize pedestrians.
@@dabrams84we can't make them completely car free, what we need is the System of superblocks. We can make superblocks pedestrian friendly but IT need to be car centric outside
Love this! the one bad thing about the brown sandstone that was used a lot in NY City, was it started to be used on facades around the 1850s-1860s on the so called "brownstone" buildings, was that they discovered very quickly- that this stone started to deteriorate rapidly when exposed to the weather, rain, freezing rain, snow, ice. Sandstone is a sedemenray rock that forms in layers like rings in a tree, it has a "grain" like wood does, and a lot of the blocks of stone, keystones etc were placed with the grain vertically and parallel to the facade, so what happens is water gets in, freezes and layers of the stone start spalling and flaking off.
There's lots of sandstone keystones that had faces and grotesques carved in them that are completely gone due to the spalling, and what is left on the surface is very crumbly.
Limestone faired much better, but acid rain causes damage and a "sandblasted" appearance.
Kiln fired terracotta came out in use in the city around the late 1870s, there were riots from stone masons over it and they claimed it would never last and only STONE would last, they were proven WRONG quickly and terracotta on facades too over like a wildfire.
As a collector of those artifacts from demolition sites starting as a teen in the 1970s, I saved terracotta keystones and things that were 100 years old in perfect, mint condition, even the original tooling marks in the sculpture could be seen, as could the clay presser's fingerprints and finger marks inside the hollow cavities in the back- they were made hollow and from the back resemble concrete blocks that way.
The terracotta was hand pressed clay, formed in plaster piece molds and finish detailed by hand.
Too bad we cant post pictures in comments, but I have a book on Amazon with numerous pictures of buildings in Manhattan that no longer exist, and many more photos of the sculptures that came off the facades, at one point I had 50 tons worth stored in several lofts.
The 298 page book is titled; "The Gargoyler of Greenwich Village" ISBN-10 0578533871
The cover photo shows several white limestone keystones, and a couple of other stone (not sandstone) keystones and some terracotta too
Great explanation. I look forward to seeing your book Sir.
The reporters in the last minute sound clueless on what they are talking about 😂. Sounds like a high school presentation making up stuff on the spot and saying random buzzwords to make this seem revolutionary and inclusive.
Now you know, that's their actual level of competency when the script is not there.
If you ever worked with a major corporate media reporter, especially if you are a subject matter expert in something, you would be shocked.
It makes you question everything you ever learned.
@@ecoro_ Yeah, sometimes I'd watch people watching the news after a segment and the only purpose for the talk at the end is to make you feel like you align or agree with those reporters.
I’m glad to see this being talked publicly in North America but this have been used for at least 15 years in Europe.
There is no novelty to it, it’s just a lack of vision from investors and architects.
Exactly. As much as it pains me to admit it, the architecture professor is right when he says that this will be limited to historical preservation projects. The ones in power are the architects, and unfortunately the architectural community is a bunch of extremely narrow-minded snobs whom have collectively decided that this type of ”traditional” and ”classic” architecture is nothing but pastiche.
I’ve studied and worked in the stone carving industry for 10 years. They made the mistake of making it an expensive material lowering the demand, the low demand created low margin that weren’t compensated by the high price. Stone is actually cheap to produce and can be found all around. The problem is that there isn’t any large scale or modern transformation factories most of them are highly inefficient compared to wood or concrete. When I was a CNC programmer 10 years ago, I was using floppy disk to load my programs in the machines and a year after I changed career the company I was working for closed.
When I was studying in France, there was research groups showing you could replace concrete by stone in mid size apartment buildings. A stone and wood mixed building would have a really low carbon footprint. You would just have the fondations made out of concrete
Funny how the "new world" is always behind the "old world"
@@benjamingranet581 This a tragic reality for a lot of crafts and repairs, here in Sweden the knowledge on how to repair old thing are disappearing so a lot of things must be made new and old thrown away and it's such a waste.
There is a few companies that do this in Europe. A lot of buildings in Berlin and Barcelona have been rebuilt like this for example.
The professor is right, once you factor in mining + transportation costs + limited suppliers who can control the quantity and price of stone, you're probably gonna end up with a cost that's much less attractive than what's already on the market (glass, steel, etc). No way would it be economically feasible to transport stone across long distances, so stone-based building projects will probably have to be closer to the quarry. Developers are going to opt in for the materials that will yield them the best profit in their projects. But still good to see a use for it in historical/specialty architecture!
Plus for large scale projects, it is just unfeasible and unyielding. Much easier to add a floor or change a floor plan on a steel structure vs a stone building.
The professor may be wrong. Once labor cost fall due to automation (AI, millions of humanoid robots) and the main cost is energy then stone may actually be CHEAPER to use than concrete + steel, because it's simpler and uses less energy. Possibly a new era of LEGO buildings that last much longer and look much better.
@@kazioo2Right. Autonomous and remote construction, delivery etc is not far off at all. Cost of fuel and labour will be almost entirely avoided with an electric vehicle + bot fleet.
More beautiful architecture please!!! The cost, effort, and time is so worth it when the alternative is soulless and depressing
Haven't they been using CNC carving to build the Sagrada Famillia in Barcelona for decades?
I’m pretty sure it could not do the fine details though, just do the rough blocking out.
@@Honest_Abe1So basically the same thing as here :D Here it's also the artist that does the detailing, which is commendable as it provides jobs for humans as well, only the TV station trying to spin it that way that it's the robot that does the job
@@pawelabrams it's a matter of improving precision. There is not point for using human sculptors in the long term, unless desired for purely ideological reason ("handmade").
Stone is timeless and it'll be great to bring back beauty, to not just the cbd but residential buildings outside of the main centre.
Anything that brings back beautiful architecture is a good thing. Really glad they could help restore a historic building
Pineapple Grove Designs has been doing this since 1989. 24,000 architects have specified us on over 300,000 projects around the world.
I love this! I always loved the stone carved buildings in Amsterdam, the elaborate doorways, so beautiful. Some of those beautiful houses also have stone carvings on the ceilings inside, they might even be able to do details like this too. And for modern design it makes so much more possible. I was wondering if they thought of using hempcrete? I heard it's really strong and better for the environment as well. I love this innovative thinking and to be honest I've never been a fan of the "cold" steel and glass buildings myself, I prefer ornamental. It's nice to let your eyes wander around a building like that and ponder the flowing shapes, there's a soothing quality to it to me.
Bringing back classics
Yess. this is what we need to bring the Art Deco style back in our lives..
It is not a style return we require. It is philosophy of design that is required.
Most of the antique stone architecture was Stone Cast. Many of the sculptures where duplicated with Molds and a concrete mixture was poured into the mold to form the part. It is still a low cost solution to stone architecture. It is fine if the guy wants to purchase a 7 axis robot for 500k. The old stone casting method could produce better detail for a lot less cost.
A lot of it is terracotta too
Check out Pineapple Grove Designs. 35 years, 24,000 architect specifiers, over 300,000 completed projects around the world.
I'm afraid the professor is right. I hope the startup keeps filling the niche market of repairs on historic structures and doesn't try to expand too fast and fail/disappear. Those old buildings need fixing up!
CNC is here and there is no going back.
@@Art-is-craft I mean, I would love for cities around the world to have beautiful stone facades. But as the professor pointed out, the major cost is materials. And we live in the age of austerity and budget cuts. This will have a hard time taking off. But I hope I'm wrong!
@@MrKYT-gb8gs
America is not in an austere backwards mood.
This are the things that we need to support.
This is incredible! Imagine the complexity of programming stone work into a machine. Bravo!
In the new world of high tech, the value of craftsmanship and handmade labor is increasing at a faster pace than we expected
monumental is literally using robots to carve the stone
@@JinKee At the end the process a hand sculptor adds the finishing touches. Power tools help imagine even greater concepts.
Anything to bring stone back into architecture.
This machine can be reproduced under 5000 USD using custom cnc router and opensource software.
How? I want to build my own one.
you can build a 7-axis cnc for 5k?
Nope, just the raw materials alone would cost you way more, not to mention the electrical parts. If you can make anything remotely like that in size for less than 100k you'll be a millionaire in a week
Bring back classic beauty to architecture
No unit costs mentioned, so it's still too expensive
Good video, i love it. didnt expect such good work.
I do question if this will be the future.
The cost of working stone will always be higher.
It is very innovative to bring in CNC technologies to Machine the stone as if it were a piece of metal. It certainly does greatly reduce the cost by removing the need for hundreds of hours of skilled artist labor and turning it in to dozens of hours of Machine time.
But speaking as someone with a few years of Machining experience, it isn't as if Machining itself is a cheap or inexpensive venture. It isn't. Especially if you are constantly doing bespoke, one-off pieces that require designing and programming each time (which is what is being suggested of the stone here). I suspect the cost of these Machined Stone pieces will be far lower than they traditionally would have been in the past, but still much more expensive than the current modern options of Concrete and steel. I don't think they will catch on for that reason.
Micah Springut of Monumental Labs, New York is nothing less than an impressive Trailblazer!
There will always be naysayers, as was the Architecture Professor that gave his counter opinion.
We just need to look at the spectacularly built & craved stone building of the past! How long have they endured, in all weather conditions?? Will the steel/metal & glass buildings that are currently standing still be here unscathed in 200 - 500 years like many in Europe?
This brave entrepreneur is a likewise dreamer, innovator, artist, etc - like the similar, famous or not, predecessors of the past!
Congratulations to him & much success in his future!!
**Please do a 3-5 year follow up!!
“…that’s just beginning to carve out the possibilities!”. Did everyone catch what he did here? These newscasters are so dang creative and witty!!
This definitely seems like it will mainly be used for historical restoration first and foremost, with some small entrance into the luxury markets, I can definitely see some major corporation or eccentric multimillionaire/billionaire ordering a large ornate stone construction. The vast majority of the dirty commoners won't be living or working in stone buildings anytime soon.
You're unfortunately right.
we dirty commoners can have terracotta and ceramic facade
Thank you!
Wow....they invited the CNC machine?
Incredibly good idea.
YEEEEEEES BRING BACK ART AND BEAUTIFUL ARCHITECTURE
I've been using cnc machines to do stone work like that for years. Nothing new. Omag, Denver, Breton and others make them
PETA championing laws against dinosaur labor was a win for everybody
This is fantastic. Not only will it make new buildings more durable and attractive, but it will also help reduce the costs of maintaining and restoring period properties.
I didn't know him of course, but I think Gaudi would be ok with the rough work being curved out with these robots, and the finer touches of the Sagrada Família finalized by hand.
People are yearning for this.
Yearning i say!
Stone is timeless, albeit expensive
This is great! These buildings need to be maintained and many of its parts replaced. Thank god someone out there loves good architecture and quality.
I hope we get to see more and more of the classic NYC I saw in movies as a kind in the 90s
Well done to this person to create this company.
I love what this guy is doing !!!
Country stone masons in north liberty Iowa has been doing this for a good while
Really? I’ll have to visit them sometime.
This would be great if they could really scale it up! I’d buy
Yeah the cnc is totally a classical building technique
$400k for an 7axis cnc is really low cost. A 5 axis mill is easily $1million.
3D print a mould then pour in a concrete mixture that imitates real stone and make as many as you like.
Works if you want fast and cheap but it won't last centuries (or millennia) like stone does. There'll never be 5,000 year old cement pieces but we have marble and granite pieces that old and more. Even limestone is far more durable then cement. The pyramids would be a pile of sand and gravel.
Thats the difference between Dior and Doir, I prefer Dior
@@bipolarcollie but there are other examples of enduring concrete like the Pantheon, albeit people have attempted to recreate the chemistry for centuries now. But I agree. Also you cannot reuse concrete mold unless there are no overhangs or they are highly complicated.
Honestly I could see this in stages of mold, use this for subtractive work, hand touch ups. Get the 80-90% as fast as possible, then add detail where it matters.
Fantastic idea! These are the things that make me like America
What is most wild about this is how many businesses are doing it already this is not new or exciting technology, it’s just how it’s done now
finally beautiful stones on The Rise again
most things should be made to last centuries and look pretty instead of some glass metal plastic crap that you tear down and rebuild every few decades, profit is not the sole value human should be pursuing
Cool. I love graving, I realised it in Marocco, who were the masters of wood and stone gravings.
I think almost everyone wants traditional building techniques brought back. Problem is architects want horrible crazy buildings that bring them recognition. For them it is more about the concept then beauty or comfort.
Society needs a philosophy that drives art and creativity. That is we get a return. The renaissance was a rebirth of Classical Roman design. It was achieved by study Roman design. All the information is out there for it to take off.
I'm sure Notre Dame will need you.
I want my Bladerunner tiles now.
This is the sort of thing I wanted automation to be used for.. making impractical or difficult things we really want to have or do, practical.
Can't wait to see new traditional buildings. Glass is ok, but if you've seen one glass building, you've seen them all.. and they're kind of bland, lose heat like a sieve, and don't respect the region's style or culture at all. This stonecutting technique could genuinely have huge impacts as people look from glass for style to stone ornamentation.
This is what I've been hoping for ever since hearing about CNC technology. Please build beautiful again!
Yes
Yes, all the tools in
Michelangelo’s Toolbox
Sculptured present arks
#robots #allthetools
Ah yes classic building techniques like using a 7 axis robot.
buildings esp in america are hideous and soulesss... go to any old building and feels amazing
I love this idea
It’s called composite combined the two a little of each makes it efficient and spectacular to look at. It’s not an either or it’s a both and
Well its not like they are making new buildings there. They are doing replacements for old damaged pieces.
Something that I would like to ask is why is that Kula robot used on a flat piece? Is it because they just invested in the most versatile machine, so they don't have to buy different machines for different jobs?
At the end of the segment we saw various sculptures that could be made using the robot carver. It's not just for making ornamental replacement parts. That's why they talked about Michelangelo using robots in his studio.
CNC for Rock
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Regular cnc presented like innovation
MEGALITHIC ARCHITECTURE IS MAKING A COMEBACK
I would love to see new art deco skyscrapers like 70 pine and the crysler building
Absolutely not.
This is wonderful!
I’m with it!!! I like this idea 💡
Leonardo DaVinci was not just an artist but also an engineer, he would have embraced the robot.
DaVinci got a lot of his inspiration from Classical Roman engineering.
That "professor" should be set free.
Yes yes yes yes!! Amazing!
GRAND DAD!
Ah yes the classic fully automated robot factory.
Yes a big robot is a classic building technique
Love it.
is it just me or that architecture professor sounded and looked soulless?
Naaah
0stone is heavier. you can make a dye and sculpt as many in cement.
"Low paid immigrant craftsman"
Needs lasers and robots to recreate the quality of the old world.
For anyone that's curious, I have a similar industrial robot in my backyard. My budget was considerably less than the $300-400k USD quoted here. I use it for milling stone. I only have one video up so far but will have more up this summer.
We need more companies like this!
watching thsi makes me truly appreciate how our ancestors built ajantan and ellora caves temples out of a sindle monolith stone with no advanced tools back then,
All this expensive high tech to recreate these buildings.
How did they build entire cities back then without that tech?
Love Love Love! Hopefully ROI doesn't get in the way, but at the end of the day the cost makes it way down to the consumer, so hopefully there are people out there willing to pay the price to live in art, or, investors willing to eat the cost. But amazing startup nonetheless
NYC going back to skyscraper monument Europe?
Impossible. Above their level of class.
I am very excited to hear this
More masonry and less boring glass please!! Everything is so samey and boring
I am very supportive with this reiterated and revisioned methods o've ornate stone manufacturing ! However , it would be undermined should Manhattan , Bronx and Brooklyn , that presently have excessive amounts o've large buildings , and excessive amount o've concrete through out , are not demolished ! Redesigning commerce and residential areas consisting o've lavish lawns adorned with weather friendly fruit trees , along with a Hydroponic tropical fruit Cultivating District , objectively maintaining a true Macys Thanksgiving parade . While Custard apples and Mamay fruits are abundant in Miami , A baseball or abandoned gun manufacturing facility would work ideally for such endeavors !
cool , tech . i wonder how this will play into housing market? stone homes maybe , high quality to last in florida weather ? cool video and tech!!!
Also what's to stop such concrete from also being reinforced with graphene sourced from biochar?
Mam I hear you're shoes crying.😭 Too much pressure on them.😂
That's are amazing, I can't wait.