架构师提供的文本描述。史密斯·艾伦于2013年8月4日至18日参加了位于门多西诺国家的387个驻地项目。在一片150英亩红杉林的中心地带，史密斯·艾伦创建了一个响应性强的3D打印建筑设施(这是同类中最大的一种)：Echoviren。该项目将建筑、艺术和技术融为一体，探索人、机器和自然之间的辩证关系。八月十七日(星期六)为三百八十七号工程的开放日及酒会。

Text description provided by the architects. Smith|Allen participated in the Project 387 Residency, located in Mendocino Country from August 4-18, 2013. In the heart of a 150-acre redwood forest, Smith|Allen has created a site responsive, 3D printed architectural installation (the largest of it’s kind): Echoviren. The project merges architecture, art and technology to explore the dialectic between man, machine and nature. The Project 387 open house and reception was Saturday, August 17.

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Echoviren横跨10x10x8英尺，是一个半透明的白色围栏，赤裸裸的和人造的，与森林中的红色和绿色的自然调色板相反。在建筑物内和周围行走时，观众立即被自然和非自然的并列，以及不可思议的相似性所消耗：巨大的洞口、开阔的地板和多孔的表面构成了周围的海岸景观。这个人造的框架把观众从森林的平面上拉上来，通过一个强制的透视进入树冠。

Spanning 10 x 10 x 8 feet, Echoviren is a translucent white enclosure, stark and artificial against the natural palette of reds and greens of the forest. Walking around and within the structure, the viewer is immediately consumed by the juxtaposition, as well as uncanny similarity, of natural and unnatural: the large oculus, open floor, and porous surface framing the surrounding coastal landscape. This artifical frame draws the viewer up from the plane of the forest, through a forced perspective into the canopy.

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Echoviren是由设计师在现场制作、印刷和组装的。通过使用参数化建筑技术和一组消费级A型机器台式3D打印机，史密斯·艾伦建造了世界上第一个3D打印、全尺寸建筑安装。7台3D打印机由500多个独特的单独打印部件组成，连续运行2个月，共运行10800小时。

Echoviren was fabricated, printed, and assembled on site by the designers. Through the use of parametric architectural technologies and a battery of consumer grade Type A Machines desktop 3D printers, Smith|Allen has constructed the world’s first 3D printed, full-scale architectural installation. Made of over 500 unique individually printed parts, 7 3D Printers ran constantly for 2 months for a total of 10800 hours of machine time.

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该结构是通过一个面板的快速匹配连接来组装的，将各个组件合并成一个整体聚合。从破土动工到完成预制三维印刷施工技术，只需4天的现场施工时间。

The structure was assembled though a paneled snap fit connection, merging individual components into a monolithic aggregation. From breaking ground to finish the prefab 3D printed construction technique required for only 4 days of on site building time.

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完全由3D打印植物为基础的解放军生物塑料，空间将自然分解回到森林30至50年。当它下雨时，它将成为昆虫、苔藓和鸟类的微型栖息地。

Entirely composed of 3D printed plant based PLA bio-plastic, the space will decompose naturally back into the forest in 30 to 50 years. As it weathers it will become a micro-habitat for insects, moss, and birds.

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Echoviren是森林空间中的一个移植物，它是一个思考景观、自然以及我们与这些建筑的关系的空间。它把重点放在森林的本质上，不是作为一个自然系统，而是作为一个弱者。这篇文章中的杂合体验突出了一个站点的累积迭代，隐藏在当代的景观中。

A graft within the space of the forest, Echoviren is a space for contemplation of the landscape, of the natural, and our relationship with these constructs. It focuses on the essence of the forest not as a natural system, but as a palimpsest. The hybridized experience within the piece highlights the accumulated iterations of a site, hidden within contemporary landscapes.

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Echoviren揭露了一个动态、自然和非自然干预的生态系统：人与自然之间的相互作用受到技术的制约。

Echoviren exposes an ecosystem of dynamic natural and unnatural interventions: the interplay of man and nature moderated by technology.