TORida (Japan), April 11 (askanews) – In Japan, Japanese companies have already defined has been built the first 3D printed world railway station: it was built in the city of Arida, in the Wakayama Prefecturein the western part of the country.
Hatsushima station is a white structure, with a curved roof, 2.6 meters high and 6.3 wide; To create the foundations and the outside, seven days were enough, the Serendix Corporation claims, which collaborated with the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) to the project.
The parties were then reinforced with steel and a filling of cement and assembled on site. With the traditional method, supports the main Japanese railway company, “it takes one or two months just to build the roof and the walls”. In this case they were installed in about two hours. The parties were assembled after the last train left Arida’s station around midnight, ending the work before the arrival of the first train in the morning, around 5 am.
Now only the interiors and turns for tickets are missing. On the station side there is a circular design reminiscent of an orange Mikan, a local specialty. Serendix said it was built with a 3D building printer with a robotic arm, using a “special mortar”.
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