And someone moved into it.
The Eindhoven home is made up of 24 concrete elements printed by a machine that squirts layer upon layer of concrete before the finishing touches, including a roof, were added.
Sounds dreamy.
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Very cool. I read about this technology a couple of years ago. I would buy one of these in a heartbeat!
These could prove to be very practical in hurricane zones.
For real fun, do a search for the robotic brick-laying machine.
It may become problematic when the printer runs out of ink, concrete, squirt juice or whatever solution they’re using.
@mickey — Being a Floridian I was thinking the same thing re: hurricanes. I find the technology fascinating and believe it hold great promise. I wonder what the wind rating is, though: I didn’t see any rebar or other reinforcing other than the boxy corrugation of the concrete structures.
It is likely ok that it lacks rebar. My office is concrete block built in 1968 and does not have it except for the slab. Compression not tension. What is clearly lacking is electrical. Something that concrete block handled well.
People used to make cars. Those cars are very popular and sought after. Then everybody got fired. Cars are made by robots now. Probably better….but I don’t want one. Neither do a lot of people.
Now you want robot houses.
They should try doing that in place without the cranes. Then, they’d have something.
(Re: Burr’s comment: People who make things don’t want to pay the people who make things.)
Perfect. Now we know what our modern jail cells will look like.
A fucking hornet nest looking box about the size of a 2 car garage.
From “Little pink houses for you and me…” to this shit in 75 years.
@Jpm
How about shitters? Or will the people of the future be resorting to Buckets to go along with the candles.
Yesterday, an HVAC & Plbg. magazine came to my office and on the cover was a couple from Alberta who are making beer from “WASTE WATER”
Village Blonde Ale – The Village Brewery
Another from Sweden – literally called “PU:REST” – New Carnegie Brewery
Reuse Brew – from Berlin
The world is fucked. There are a thousand uses for grey water but this is just Crappy ;(
… and nutty & acetic.
The foundation is not printed. Plumbing goes in a regular poured slab as would be the case with a printed concrete house
They could have saved a lot of time and money by making it 2D.
https://youtu.be/uq7noaMwLfg
What is the roof made of? There are no gutters. The windows go right down to the poured concrete floor.
What happens during a torrential downpour? Will water wash off the roof like a waterfall and puddle against the house and then seep in under the windows and the wall sections that are just sitting on the floor?
As a builder don’t get me started on crap like this.
5 days to squirt out grout, how long to cure,how much to transport.
Not a straight line in it, the cost to finish it would be in line with building a boat.
I would bet the total real cost with the 3D printer for the finished house was north of $5,000 per square foot.
300 square foot house with out land $150,000
Shows promise, but a question:
If it catches on here, since it eliminates so many manual workers, what are we going to do with all of the (newly legalized under Biden) migrant population that make their living building housing and such?
The creation of more people for whom there is no productive place in the new world we face.
The walls are dust and spider collectors!! Nightmare. Forget ever wanting to remodel anything, change the plumbing to reconfigure the bathrooms, paint the walls something other than grey putty color. Do you get to hang any artwork on those toothpaste like extruded walls? Or is that verboten?
No thanks. I’d rather live in a 1950’s Nashua camp trailer.