3D printing for biomimetic landscape projects

Human activities are responsible for land appropriation processes that, whether not driven by regulatory plans and sustainable territorial management policies, lay the foundations for uncontrolled ecosystems damages. Indeed, deforestation, polluting substances introduction, and soil permeability decreasing, are the principal reasons of environmental disruptions as landslides or floods, which unavoidably affect Natural Heritage features. Starting from the assumption that more research and a multidisciplinary regulation should be carried out in this field, the present essay wants to prefigure methodological aspects that local administration could take into consideration for the definition of strategic technological landscape components, with a particular focus on the preservation of protected natural areas. Current studies are experimenting how the latest construction systems, as 3D printing technologies, which have already been tested on the architectural scale, can find an application and therefore generate a qualitative contribution within landscape design processes. The objective is to elaborate compatible intervention in terms of environmental impact, design morphology (following the biomimetic principles), and choice of materials, in order to set the basis for a resilient and adaptive landscape, able to react positively to background modifications and consistent with the different declinations of sustainability.