The newly built house, just feet from the water’s edge, occupies the space where a decaying farmhouse once stood.

With its vertical wood slats, the garden fence helps unify the main house and the smaller shed.

The kitchen of a home on an Amsterdam canal “is where it all happens,” says Van Zeijl. As the hub of the home, the room is situated at the front of the house and features a minimal palette and Belgian granite countertops. The table is by Pilat & Pilat and the pendants are from It’s About Romi.

DUS is also working on incorporating recycled plastics into a more sustainable, bio-based 3-D printing material that's made especially for larger scaled architecture. Photo courtesy of DUS Architects.

Bram sits at a table by Gispen in the oak-floored public side of the house, facing the water, while the dog, Bommel, relaxes nearby. “We really like the indoor-outdoor effect," says Bram's dad, Mark de Graaf. "The ground floor opens on three sides—on a summer day, it stays cool.”

"Why a canal house? It's not only the ornament and facade; it's especially its program. It was always a place for trade, living, working, storage, and being open to the world," says Hans Vermeulen, DUS Architects co-founder. "We think 3-D printing can be the technique to provide good housing to billions of people on this planet." Photo courtesy DUS Architects.

"We think Kammermakers can be built around the globe to print solutions that can respond to local contexts, with local materials," says Vermeulen of the room-printing machine. Fellow co-founder Martine De Wit adds, "It's really research and design by doing. We continuously improve the design, which has an effect on the printer, which has an effect on the materials, which has an effect on the structure." Photo courtesy DUS Architects.

House on Kadoelenweg Floor Plan A Master Bedroom B Bathroom C Bedroom D Kitchen E Dining Area F Living Room G Shed H Utility Room

Located on a canal in a neighborhood outside central Amsterdam is the house Mark de Graaf and Sanne Wisman share with their three children. Architects Huib van Zeijl and Daniëlle Segers of Équipe based the pitched-roof house and shed on the local vernacular. "It’s a modern translation of a kid’s drawing of a typical Dutch house," says architect Huib van Zeijl.

“The Low Poly Pokémon project started as a challenge,” says their designer Flowalistik. “I wanted to try to transform the low-quality graphics the first Pokémon video games had into a 3D model." The resulting forms can be printed in a wide range of materials—it depends on your local 3D printer—though the plastic seen here is most common.

This open-concept Amsterdam loft features soaring 15-foot ceilings, an Eames lounge chair and ottoman, and a Jielde light. Throughout the home, Standard Studio architects Wouter Slot and Jurjen van Hulzen favored raw materials, including concrete, oiled oak, and hot-rolled steel, all of which complemented the original space's industrial feel. Tucked smartly underneath the loft, a compact home office features functional built-in shelving and an Eames DSR chair.

The first room of the project, currently a three meter-high, 180-kilogram sample, is on track to be completed this summer, and the entire site is open to the public to view the progress and welcome ideas. Photo courtesy of DUS Architects.

The Catifa chair in the dining area is by Arper.

Similar architectural geometries are at play in the ceiling of a bathroom, where custom sinks by Concr3te accompany Grohe fixtures.

With a custom design by Scalo, the kitchen is “white and simple; we didn’t want handles,” notes De Graaf. The hotplate, oven, and teppan-yaki grill are from Falliss.

ICON developed its Vulcan I 3D printer over a period of about two years. The gantry-style printer on rails is mobile and weighs about 2,000 pounds.

A musician plays a 3D-printed guitar that started as a nylon powder, which is then hardened by a laser and melted into shape.

Made from ABS plastic, a common 3D printing material, the Bristol Chair capitalizes on the complexity possible with additive manufacturing. "When talking to designers," says Bitonti, "I try to impress that [3D printing] has its own unique materials and process... they try to design for injection molding but they need sensibilities and knowledge appropriate to this medium. Additive processes are their own thing with their own advantages."

3D printed vases at Hôtel Droog.

"The rooms are first tested out on the small printers," says DUS Architects co-founder Hedwig Heinsman. "Once the file is completely finalized, we send it to the big printer. The technique in the small printer is the same as the big one so we can use the same files." Photo courtesy of DUS Architects.

The smooth, raven-hued island in this kitchen is made of oak with a thin stone countertop. A Foscarini Gregg Pendant hangs overhead.

Inside, just off the entrance, pendant lights from Woonfabriek hang in the triple-height central hall.

3D Hubs helps you find 3D print designs—anything from jewlery to tools to housewares—then connects you with a local 3D printing service who can make it. This collection, Low Poly Pokémon, is just one of the most recent added to their website.

The photo yields this pattern.

Dwell-curated pavilions focused on design for humankind, scandinavian design, the modern family, and technology. 3-D printed designs in the Energy 360/Technology Pavilion included a glowing piece by Daksh Sahni.

In a family's house in Amsterdam, a New York cityscape takes up one wall in Bram’s room, which has furnishings from Ikea and a bed from Goed Gemaakt.

A 3D-printed scooter at the 3D Systems display.

In the living room, Bram and Dirk sit on a sofa by Cocoon near a Persian rug and tables from Leen Bakker. The architects illuminated one side of the stairway leading to the bedrooms.

Onstage, Liz and Kyle von Hasseln will talk about putting their own spin on the emerging technology of 3-D printing. The two founded Sugar Lab, which designed and printed three-dimensional, edible candy and chocolate treats, and has since been acquired by industry heavyweight 3DSystems. The treats will be on view at the pavilion.

This "surfboard" is designed purely in 3-D CAD software, 3-D printed via Selective Laser Sintering by SciCon Technologies in Valencia, California, and assembled at Karten Design in Marina Del Rey, California.

The Stria necklace.

The flexible nylon that makes up the Catena necklace has a distinct shimmer to it. “I ended up using SLS [selective laser sintering; a common 3-D process] polished nylon for all of the smaller jewelry pieces, like earrings and rings, and SLS flexible nylon for the necklaces,” says Wu.

The Tangens necklace, shown in white, has a smooth, bonelike quality.

Waechter Architecture reimagined a traditional gabled home in southeast Portland without significantly altering the original building. A simple coat of red paint abstracts the century-old structure, creating a residential work of art.

The clients and design team chose to forego an open floor plan in favor of defined, separated spaces. In this scheme, the vertically oriented spaces act as a cinematic "hard-cut" to their horizontal counterparts. The custom hot rolled steel kitchen, one of these vertical transition spaces, receives light from above through a Velux skylight. A GE Profile Induction cooktop and oven and Miele refrigerator complete the space.