This unique installation by architect and artist Ronald Rael uses modern-day innovation to reimagine the 7,000-year-old technology of adobe. It will begin with a live demonstration of Rael using 3D printing to create a large art installation out of an adobe mixture of clay, straw, and sand, which will then be displayed at the History Colorado Center to show how ancient technologies live on today, and can be adapted to our future.

Ronald Rael co-founded Emerging Objects to use 3D printing to make architecture, building components, environments, and products. This installation will not only demonstrate the versatility of this technology, but will also tap into Rael's roots in southern Colorado's Conejos County and challenge the viewer to think differently about materials, space, and borders.