3D printer at the heart of technological village

On 22nd March, the Mayor Daniele Bassi and the CSP Business Owner Massimo Moretti, signed the agreement. Work on the village will start at the beginning of next April. WASP aims to build an eco-friendly village with low energy consumption. Therefore, Massa Lombarda is set to become an important Technology Experimentation Centre dedicated to 3D printing.

“Massa Lombarda has always been a district interested in innovation,” said the Mayor Daniele Bassi. “The important agreement we signed today proves that the cohesion of energy, allegiance and creativity between the municipality and a capable entreprenuer like Massimo Moretti, is a crucial element of development for our city and the youth who we want to guarantee an adequate future commensurate to their hope.”

Moretti added: “We decided to name the technological village Shambalha from the name of the mythological place that symbolises the city of peace, tranquillity and happiness. A city quoted in a lot of cultural documents for its spirituality and technical advance. House, food, employment, healthcare and wellness are the basic human necessities of life. In our Shambalha we’ll print houses and vertical vegetable gardens of different sizes. There will also be a laboratory for a compact desktop printer to make objects (furniture, biomedical, jewellery and ceramics).”

WASP claim that the development will assist with the realisation of the ‘Maker Economy’, a new economical model where everything is self-made and nobody depends on monopolistic companies. Quickly exportable, it would be suitable for places where there is no productive potential or well functioning infrastructures, in some of the world’s poorest countries.