3Diligent produces 140 additively manufactured components for Seattle skyscraper project

3Diligent has additively manufactured 140 exterior curtain wall nodes for the Rainier Square Tower which is currently under construction in Seattle. The manufacturing service provider was commissioned by Walters & Wolf, a commercial cladding company, to produce the nodes, which varied in dimensions up to one cubic foot in size.
Expected to be completed in 2020, the Rainier Square Tower is a sloping structure of 58 stories, each floor between the fourth and fortieth story stepping back. Because of this, the cladding system for each floor is set to have a different angle and thus require complex geometries to fit together. Every piece of the curtain wall required custom fabrication because of those geometries, and so V-shaped nodes were produced so as to bring together square cut parts of the curtain wall.