Netherlands: 3D Printed Houses
June 9th, 2018Five.
It would be much more interesting if the number was 5,000 or 50,000.
Well, it’s early days.
This reminds me…
I recently read an interesting sci-fi/cyberpunk/dystopia novel called Voidstar by Zachary Mason.
In the near future, the sprawling favelas that exist between San Francisco and Los Angeles have been 3D printed by autonomous machines.
“The favelas were always rising, like hard clouds of grey stone billowing up…”
Check out the picture at the link.
Via: Quartz:
What do you do when there are too few skilled bricklayers to meet national housing demands? Figure out a workaround—like 3D-printed houses.
That’s the solution the Dutch construction company Van Wijnen and researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands came up with. The city of Eindhoven soon hopes to boast the world’s first commercially-developed 3D-printed homes, an endeavor known as Project Milestone.
Construction on the first home begins this year and five houses will be on the rental market by 2019, project organizers say.
