Park + Associates 3D prints a meditative and sculptural home, QR3D, in Singapore

Singapore’s first fully 3D-printed, multi-story home was completed this year by Park + Associates (P+A). The residence, dubbed QR3D, is not only a case study for working with the novel technology, but it’s also an experiment that pushes the method’s limits. The home, for the firm’s own founder Lim Koon Park, expands Singapore’s use of 3D printing to larger and more complex structures. With QR3D, the construction method is used, in partly unconventional ways, to create a 4-story, 7-bedroom, 6,130-square-foot abode with curving and conical sculptures.

P+A worked with specialists in 3D-printed concrete, CES_InnovFab, for the construction. The process created parts of the structure onsite and offsite where necessary. From the exterior, the residence reads as a concrete rectilinear volume, whose striations, which reveal the printing process of each layer, contrast against the vertical lining of its fence.