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RE: $10k Home Built in Under 24 Hours Using 3D Printing Vulcan Printer
Totally agree, with urbanization continuing we need to build higher. The perfect example for this is Berlin. As the capital of Germany, it is the largest city in terms of area and population. When walking through the city you will see almost no buildings taller than a few stories.
I guess the technology to build these small homes for such a low price it rather going to be used for second homes in tourist areas.
interesting, yea seems like could be increasing sprawl, that is still urbanization?
Berlin is a story for itself.
The mainly low houses there results from fire service laws from a hundred years ago, when the fire ladders were short and fire in higher houses could not have been extinguished. :)
But it seems as if they want to change this soon, as there now exists a lack of free spaces for new houses.
But for Germany there could as well be stated, that there exist states like Mecklenburg, theoretically having enough space for every single inhabitant to have an own house. If building them would not be so expensive, of course...
Sadly, those 3D printed houses would not be a solution anyway, as every house to be built in Germany has to be approved by state officials in advance (in terms of safety, ecologic impact etc.) and those officials would likely never allow such houses, I guess. :)
how interesting regulations can interfere with the market and distort the built environment. Yea it seems like zoning boards with arbitrary power trips is a major factor to preventing more competition for building costs.