Posted on 03/12/2018 8:41:16 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Austin startup ICON unveiled a new method of mass producing small homes with a massive 3D printer in a process that the company says takes just 12 to 24 hours. At the annual film and innovation festival known as SXSW, the company showed off how it could construct a 650-square-foot house out of cement in one day.
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The homeless do the same thing with empty cardboard containers.
650 square foot? Illegal. Minimum home size for a building permit in San Bernardino County is 720. Nice try though.
county should make exemptions for illegals. Get everyone off the street
And a concrete home is probably not your first choice in North Dakota. Concrete has the insulation R value of a silk scarf.
>> 650 square foot? Illegal. Minimum home size for a building permit in San Bernardino County is 720. Nice try though. <<
OK... Two days. ;-)
My first house was 890 square feet with a full basement.
I can’t imagine living in anything that much smaller.
That is like a one bedroom apartment.
Two days, and 20k.
No, costs don’t quite double. Two days, 14K.
650x4 for $40K works for me. Marry them with ‘Arizona rooms’ or ‘sunrooms’ or ‘conservatories’ or ‘music rooms’ or whatever you want to call 20ft wide connecting hallways. I’ll take two.
interesting
What?! Exception for illegals? No, get them off the street by deporting them!
And who will pay for it? To put it where?
It’s a start but ... 650 sq ft? Why even bother with that and instead extend the technique to build something larger?
Believe it or not, there are places that don’t have such asinine requirements!
Maybe they can join 2 or 3 650 sq ft homes to make a home you have space to relax ad stretch out in and do hobbies/workshop and workout stuff in.
There is a little problem: land is expensive, frequently land drives the price, not the cost of building a house.
Nevertheless, they could maybe build many of these homes close to each other, several on one lot, to make them less expensive.
Of course, people could just rent an apartment.
Ten grand, yeah... But they get you on the cartridge refills.
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