Additive manufacturing helps build a work of art Artist Edra Soto’s stunning Screenhouse installation is a rich immersive experience that evokes decorative screens (known as rejas and quiebrasoles in Soto’s native Puerto Rico) to create a free-standing social structure that challenges the distinction between public and private spaces. Soto was commissioned to build her outdoor installation in Chicago’s iconic Millennium Park, where she envisioned creating a 10-foot-tall structure that could withstand Chicago’s harsh climate. She partnered with Navillus Woodworks to construct the installation, which would be composed of more than 400 custom-cast concrete blocks. Though the Navillus team were experts in traditional manufacturing methods, they knew little about making molds for casti

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