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3D printing a building with 756 windows

I’m writing this in a building with 756 windows. I know because I counted, and spent months researching, measuring, designing, 3D printing, and assembling them for the final project of an architecture course I took last spring.

I’m a computer science major, but I make a point of taking a few non-math non-CS courses each year, made possible by Brown University’s Open Curriculumn. This is a good time to mention the Brown Design Workshop, an incredible student-run space I’m a member of with woodworking, machining, welding, and sewing tools—and vitally, three laser cutters and a dozen 3D printers. After discovering a photograph in Constantin Brodzki, Architecte showing the CBR company’s logo as a large cement sign outside their building, I decided to model and print it.

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