Hat tip to daytrip:
Architects around the globe are racing to build the world’s first 3D printed houses — a breakthrough with profound implications for housing affordability and customization.
In China, a company named Winsun this year said it built 10 3D printed houses in just one day. The reported cost for each: just $5,000.
In Amsterdam, a team of architects has started construction of the 3D Print Canal House, using bio-based, renewable materials. The site is both construction site and public museum; President Obama was among the visitors this year. Hedwig Heinsman, co-founder of DUS architects, the team behind the project, tells Business Insider that in addition to being ec0-friendly, “The main goal, I think, is really to deliver custom-made architecture.”
3D printers build structures layer by layer. But at USC in California, Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis is pushing the fabrication process one step further with what he calls “contour crafting.” He hopes to develop a gigantic 3D printer, able to print whole house in a single run, from its structure to its electrical and plumbing conduits.
The revolution in 3D printed housing, in other words, is well underway.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/3d-printed-houses-are-here-2014-9#ixzz3COIWo6Gd
This will not replace the 10.00 per hour worker coming across the border.
The Land & entitlements, can be 90% or more of current cost except in very low land coast area, even then it is at least 50-60%
They will help us complete the cycle – those who run out of money will be living in communes in the desert, and these will be the answer.
These should be a great solution to provide “temporary” housing for people recovering my disaster related events.
Similar to modular or pre-fab, it will still be labor intensive with a heavy expectation on the digital to be absolutely perfect.
Someone has to pull the wiring for electrical, connect plumbing fixtures, finish the interior walls, floors, etc. The big hit will be to framers & masons mostly. Instead of those trades you’ll have guys with big cranes that own the printers.
I want to be on the front row with a bucket of popcorn the first time one of these goes through a design review at the local level.
I like the Dutch approach. Really innovative using flexible concrete and the flexible 3D printed forms.
Note the houseboats lining the canals in Amsterdam? (London, etc.) You’ll never see anything like that in a US city either. Most cities just say no to anything innovative and new, no matter how much it reduces cost, labor or waste.
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Seattle has Houseboat options…
I suspect they will use the state approval route, such as modular homes in Ca do based upon an earlier post of Jim’s.
One approval for an entire state. Further as with modular homes a lot of the finishing will be done at the factory, so that at site, you put the unit on its foundation, connect up the plumbing and electrical and hvac put in steps etc, and you are done.
Mozart:
“Similar to modular or pre-fab, it will still be labor intensive with a heavy expectation on the digital to be absolutely perfect.”
You mean like when Boeing constructs a 767? I think they won’t be having major problems wit that.
Someone has to pull the wiring for electrical, connect plumbing fixtures, finish the interior walls, floors, etc. The big hit will be to framers & masons mostly. Instead of those trades you’ll have guys with big cranes that own the printers.”
Wiring can be laid into the walls, much like circuits can be laid into a piece of plastic. Plumbing fixtures can be simplified, and made more efficient. Walls and floors can be finished in the factory, with higher quality work. One of the great aspects of this is the flexibility regarding floor plans so that lower income (or even McMansions) homes can be built to look like a community, rather than having every third house looking exactly like the first. I’ve always found cookie cutter neighborhoods to be depressing. They don’t seem like homes. They seem like glorified apartments. Gives zero sense of community.