A private company in Shanghai used 3D printers to print 10 full-sized houses in just one day.
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Why aren't we funding this
How cost effective tho. And cost effective for whom, the client or the company?
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Same as 90% of other houses in China: empty and owned by the 1%.
This goes to show that with modern technology, that there is no sensible reason for homelessness.
3D printing will reduce trips to home depot for home improvements.
Yah!
Building technology is changing in amazing ways! Check out 3D printing for buildings.
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I only want to know two things! How much? and Where can I get one? Oh! one more thing? I hope there is no asbestos in that waist!
Is this putting people to work or taking work from them?
Amazing technology
Wow - its fast, strong, precise, safe, versatile, sustainable, scalable....such novel thinking! Imagine how this technology could be used to construct "site-specific" homes/architecture - they already demonstrated its ability to construct multiple rectangular shaped houses, but these designs have no relationship to the structure of the land and the weather/wind/sunlight patterns of the building location....site specific architecture requires custom designs based on maximizing the energy efficiency of the home and minimize the upkeep and power consumption necessary to inhabit it. So, 3d printing offers inherent versatility because the materials are extruded in any direction, making it perfect for customizing the design for the build site. By utilizing data from the land and integrating it with the design of a building, the outcome would have greater benefits across the board. Software like Rhino3D and Autodesk programs can combine 3d topographical maps & geological surveys with flow maps, use models, and structural requirements using algorithms that generate forms and structures that work within the parameters derived from such data - there are already many architects using such data driven methodologies to design homes of the near future, check out mark fornes and the very many, he worked for zaha hadid to design buildings from data models and im sure lots of other better examples out there, but its a start. Very inspiring!
Without internal steel structure it will be very brittle to the first earthquake... no thanks.
It looks a lot slower and weaker than pouring prefabricated concrete slabs.
How safe are these houses ? I live in southern California where there are plenty of earthquakes, big ones. Do you have houses that can have solar power ? Can you build a water tower with a filter ? (for clean water). If so, how big ?
Homeless people now no longer need to be homeless
stupid. there are better ways. this looks like lines of toothpaste, before the outer walls get done.
it's actually "recycling mine tailings". Mine tailings are the waste produced when mining, with a lot of them having cementitious properties that can be used in concrete mixtures.