Voxelium

Contrary to our man-made environment, nature uses only a handful of building blocks called amino acids that then become proteins, complex molecules, cells, organs, and finally living things. They are completely modular and all parts are reused. Inspired by this, Sebastián György explored how we could build and, more importantly, unbuild in a similar fashion, maintaining true modularity and sustainability. Imagine downloading a design model for a chair from the internet. Once it outlives its usefulness, it is reassembled into the next thing you might need. Sebastián’s own 3D-printed structure, operated by an autonomous army of tiny robots, is a proof of concept for ‘Voxelium’: a world where the voxel becomes a universal digital building block that can be endlessly rearranged.