Well, we might not have feasible
jet packs, hoverboards, or Robocops just yet, but the world is on its
way to the future with this inexpensive 3D printed house.
Shared via a recent post on Design
Boom, Russian 3D printing company Apis Cor debuted their first
successful on-site 3D print of an entire house using a rotating
printer that can be set up in about an hour for each build. The
printer itself runs similarly to the desktop plastic ones we’re
familiar with except that, instead of printing things in PVC, the
Apis Cor printer uses a special concrete mix to build up layers. The
company claims that minimal human interaction is needed with each
build. However things like placing the fiberglass supports (similar
to rebar) during the print at set intervals, installing the roof, and
putting the finishing touches on it still need the gentle non-robotic
finesse of a human being.
The really impressive part of a 3D
printed house like this is the cost. Normally, when we see processes
like this on the internet it serves as some proof of concept with a
sentence or two explaining how designers “hope to make it
affordable down the line.” But with Apis Cor, the final price
tag is actually pretty comparable to modern building costs. The
38-square-meter house (that’s 409 square feet) shown in the video
above comes in at just over $10,000 USD from start to finish. And
it’s not just for just the concrete shell. This house–that could
be put on most credit card balances–includes the foundation, roof,
wall insulation, windows, floors, suspended ceiling, and finishing
for both the inner and outer walls.
We don’t entirely see these sort
of houses peppering the landscape any time soon, but with the ease of
use in their construction and the low cost of labor, we wouldn’t be
surprised if Apis Cor is the first of many building companies to
begin implementing this sort of tech more often.
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The moment machines pass the
Turing
test properly, and you pick up the phone and
you do not know whether the person you are talking to is a human
being or a machine˙
the moment we are going to have 3D printers operating as public
utilities - you can send any blueprint to it and it can print from
one pin to a motorcycle, or to a car - the moment that this happens,
we have not just a process of Schumpeterian creative destruction, but
we have a process where economies of scale and the whole logic of
corporate Capitalism collapses. [fa.ev/vaitt]
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