3D Printed Homes: Way Of The Future
3D printed homes are a revolution in the making! And when I say a revolution, I mean freedom, possibilities, affordability, sustainability and hope.
The 3D home printing technology alone is amazing. (For clarity’s sake, the printers used in construction are industrial size; don’t try it at home.)
3D home printing technology:
– significantly speeds up the building process. (Some buildings are being completed as quickly as in one day! More complex projects take just weeks!)
– has a huge architectural advantage over traditional construction. (Curvatures and circular elements which are difficult and costly in conventional home building are easily implemented with 3D printing.)
– eliminates most of construction refuse and has a minimal carbon footprint.
– cuts labor costs because it requires very few – in comparison with tradition construction – construction workers. (It eliminates also the need for hard labor.)
Long story short: 3D homes can be beautiful, are built faster, cost less and their construction is environmentally-friendly.
And that’s just a fraction of my excitement over 3D printed homes.
– They are built to fight homelessness.
– They are built to provide affordable housing.
– They are built to accelerate post-natural disaster recovery.
– Most are built with sustainability in mind which includes solar power.
Now, the 3D printing homes’ technology is currently used as a new, better, faster, more economical, environmentally-friendly building OPTION, a new type of business, if you will and there is nothing wrong with that.
In the United States, such companies as
– Icon (whose fantastic 3D home printer is featured on top of this post)
– Apis-Cor
– SQ4D
– Mighty Buildings
are pioneering the 3D printing homes’ technology using either concrete or proprietary mixtures as the building material.
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Others however, see it less as a business and more as a step toward Utopia. The most notable example of this philosophy is the Italian company WASP.
WASP’s vision for the new 3D printing homes’ technology is nothing short of AMAZING! Their concept of the “Maker Economy” doesn’t end with housing mind you, but includes solutions that address health, food and work!!! (Take a look at this page of WASP’s Website and don’t judge it by its writer’s English, but the company’s wisdom.) Incidentally, WASP has already built Gaia, its first BIO-DEGRADABLE home!
And they didn’t stop there. Check this out, something for your hydroponic garden!
On the company’s Website, Massimo Moretti, the CEO of WASP, said:
“We are not so crazy to think we can save the world, but we are crazy enough to work for it.”
Just think, if enough of us were “crazy enough” in our respective fields and our lives… the climate crisis could come to a halt in one year. We could be safer, prosperous and happier… Some people have already started. How about YOU?
