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In China and the Netherlands, 3D printing of houses is already a reality
At the end of January 2015, in Suzhou, near Shanghai, China, the world’s first complete villa by 3D printer to set up, so to say “print out”.
Specifically, it was a 1115 square meter, 5-storey apartment building that took just 6 days to erect. However, the actual 3D printing of the large components took place in a single day, and the remaining 5 days were needed for assembling them.
The 3D printer specially developed for this purpose is 6 meters high and has a print bed area of more than 370 square meters. It was printed from a mixture of recycled construction waste, fiberglass and cement, i.e. mainly from recycled building materials.
The 3D printing villa in Suzhou also caused a stir in the German media. For example, the FAZ dedicated an article in its business section to this highly innovative architectural 3D printing.
A few months earlier, in March 2014, the same Chinese company built a total of 10 single-story 3D-printed houses in a Shanghai high-tech industrial park in a single day, using a 150 by 10 by 6.6 meter 3D printer. See the video below for more information.
Dutch build canal house with 3D printing technology
In Amsterdam, more precisely in the Noord district there, a 4-storey hotel with a total of 13 rooms has been under construction since June 2014 using 3D printing technology canal housein the style of around 400-year-old models.
The 3D printer used for this, the so-called “camera maker” (= Zimmer-Macher) is 3 meters high, stands on a base area of 2 by 2 meters and was built from an old sea container that had been converted accordingly. The Kamer-Maker prints components such as stairs, walls or entire parts of the facade from a bio-plastic in the form of small white balls.
3D printing of architecture reduces construction noise and conserves resources
One of the general advantages of house 3D printing is the avoidance of the otherwise notorious construction noise, but also the increased one material efficiency. In fact, there is almost no waste when building houses using 3D printing because the 3D printer really only uses the material intended for the design. In addition, the recycled content of the 3D printing materials used further reduces resource consumption.
If all of this has piqued your interest, 3D Activation is happy to help you realize architectural 3D projects, even if it’s a little smaller at first.
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