House Printing

House Printing

The 3D printing revolution is almost at the point where there can be a printer in any home. But what about using a printer to build the house itself? The Dutch company DUS Architects is working on doing just that. They’ve developed a 3D printer 10 times the size of ordinary ones. It’s called the KamerMaker, which means Room Builder, and they built it out of a shipping container, with the goal to 3D print an entire house! Using bio-plastics, the on-site printer creates the pieces of a canal home in Amsterdam that the firm is currently building as an experiment over the next few years.

One aspect of construction they’re testing is the ability to reduce waste. The bio-plastic is based on rapeseeds, and if the manufactured piece is slightly out of spec, it can be ground up and reused. Also, because the pieces are all made on site, there’s less trial and error, thus reserving resources.

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