Calcium Carbonate is 3D printed to mimic the materiality which makes up the hard structural home of Coral’s living polyp inhabitants. This unique material development has led to the invention of a working prototype in support of a wide range of ocean life ecosystems by...

Hope3D utilizes crowdsource (project open to the community) home consumer 3D Printing with a different approach to the construction of the low cost artificial reef. Modules are 3D printed to build the structure collected through popular collaboration of anyone who has a 3D FDM printer...

3DPare was developed by marine scientists in the Faculty of Science & Tecnology into an EU Interreg project to design an innovative artificial reefs for the sustainable management of the marine ecosystem of the Atlantic Area. Biodiversity oriented reefs were shaped by larger-scale 3D printing...

Archireefs aims to restore degraded marine ecosystems and mobilise blue carbon to achieve carbon neutrality. The world's first artificial reef structure 3D-printed in terracotta, invented and designed by The University of Hong Kong. The reef tiles are truly ocean-friendly and integrate biomimicry to enhance coral...

Coralise aims to reduce juvenile coral mortality (99%). The substrates are a unique ceramic material made of calcium carbonate from coral skeletons. This, along with its carefully designed 3D printed organic form, attracts the coral larvae. The pattern on the product replicates the corallite structures...

X-Coral , using the approach of nature-centered design, which put the reef and other natural entities in the center, it was used design-research tools such as observations, prototyping, user validation, and other design methods to achieve remedial interventions in nature. For manufacturing process it was...

The pioneering artificial reef project in 2012, was manufactured using the Binder Jetting process using a D-Shape printer (large-scale construction), using a mixture of patented and non-toxic sandstone material for the construction of pilot structures weighing 498kg and 1m high which were sunk off the...

MARS is a ceramic 3D printed modular system for constructing reef habitat without the need for heavy duty equipment. The system was originally designed by Alex to be used in conjunction with coral farming and reef restoration projects. MARS reimagines these farming structures as a three...

Living Seawalls has shown that despite marine construction being a large part of the problem, it can also be part of the solution. Volvo, SIMS and the Reef Design Lab have developed 3D printed seawall tiles whose structure mimics the roots of native mangrove trees. The...

Researchers at the University of Delaware Faculty of Science with her team, replicated and fabricated 3D printed corals with the aim of helping to replenish a reef in Fiji and protect local marine life. Two species of scleractinian coral skeletons, Acropora formosa and Pocillopora damicornis, were used as...