Tech Wonder: 3D Print Your House for $64,000 in 8 Hours
It's both expensive and time-consuming to build a custom house by hand. As human labor has become increasingly more expensive, some homebuilders have decided they would rather automate part of the construction instead.
There's a new Ukrainian homebuilding startup called PassivDom that is changing the way homes are built. Instead of traditional manufacturing they use a 3D printing robot capable of printing many of the components and raw inputs needed to build a tiny house.
The machine can print the walls, roof, and floor of PassivDom’s 410-square-foot model in about eight hours. The windows, doors, plumbing, and electrical systems are then added by a human worker.
Using a 3d printer to print walls, a roof and a floor is quite an accomplishment and certainly a step towards a new revolution in manufacturing and homebuilding.
Another thing that is quite impressive about these 3d printed homes is that they are autonomous and mobile. This means that they don’t need to connect to external electrical and plumbing systems. To accomplish this task firstly, solar energy is stored in a battery connected to the houses. Secondly, water is collected and filtered from humidity in the air (or you can pour water into the system yourself). Finally, the houses also feature independent sewage systems.
These homes are in high demand and because of their popularity, since the startup launched in spring 2017, they have received more than 8,000 preorders in the United States alone for their homes. If you are considering buying one, you should know that they are cheap but not that cheap, their most basic model starts at $64,000. The first 100 ones will be delivered in January 2018.
Do you think we are looking at the future of modern housing development projects? Will we see entire neighborhoods of houses like these built? Can you imagine a team of robots entering a plot of land and leaving behind a completely 3d printed neighborhood 24 hours later?
What do you guys think? Leave your comments below!
Thanks for reading.
Source:
A Robot Can Print This $64,000 House in as Little as Eight Hours - Futurism
Image Source:
Futurism
I watched the development of 3D printing over the past 3-4 years. It is amazing how far they have come.
3D printing is seriously going to reduce the cost of many things in our lives. In the housing realm, this is really going to crush the prices over the next couple decades. People buying homes with 30 year mortgages on them are going to take a bath since their home, most likely, will be worth a fractions of what it is today in 2040.
3D printing is going to reduce home prices that much. Now it is $60K to start for one of these homes, 10 years from now it will be $10K or $5K.
I agree with your prediction. I think $10K or $5K mini houses will be available very soon!
True. Decentralization breaks the monopoly that big institutions have. And due to that, things become much cheaper.
Decentralization is key to breaking down monopolies and bringing us into a better collective position as a species. At least that is my hope!
Absolutely they will. The more things fall under IT, which is expanding every year, the more the pricing behaves like cell phones or computers...prices come down over time...at least until they reach a low point where they level off.
We are getting closer and closer to a truly decentralized world. Now we have decentralized currencies, decentralized power (like through solar energy), decentralized computing (like the project golem is offering) and now this, with which you don't need some company to build your house, just plumbing and stuff, which also could be done automatically in the future. Now decentralized water supply, that would be somewhat difficult to achieve I think.
Well based on recent research I've done into the field of solar power generation. There are now solar devices that can collect humidity from the air and create potable drinking water. We are getting there!
This really is a tech wonder but at that expense?! Wow.
Nice great
3D printing must be one of the most interesting technologies of the last decade. The applications are fantastic and endless.
Thank you very much for sharing.
Very intresting. I hope the technology will become accesible fore everyone soon. Thanks for information!
The real twist will come when 3D printing will be done from recycled plastic waste. I really like the idea of a 3D printed home with solar panels. I love batteries!! I hope the project will succeed.
You might actually be a few years behind the curve.
http://www.re-filament.com
We've had access to 3D printing with filament made from recycled plastic waste for a little bit now. There are some problems with it, in part the fact that it is a long way from efficient process, that the degradation in the quality of the plastic having been processed once means that you have to mix in a fair quantity of un-recycled plastic, and the whole process is just way more expensive than it really needs to be to become truly widespread.
But it already exists.
Whether it might ever become a truly useful technology – that's a whole different question which probably ought not to be left to blue sky speculation.
Wow, I didn't know that, thanks! :)
As a 3d printing enthusiast, I hope that I will be able to get a house 3d printed after I finish university in three to four years (hopefully). It will also be interesting to see how useful will graphene concrete mixtures be.