Posted on 07/09/2018 6:38:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A French family of five has just become the first to ever move into a fully 3D printed house. Constructed in just 54 hours, the inhabitable structure is 1,022 square feet large, and includes four bedrooms and a central living area.
A French family recently became the first in the world to move into a fully 3D printed house. The spectacularly sized family home was built as a part of a project that aims to use additive manufacturing to construct buildings in a quick and affordable manner.
This 3D printed home was constructed in a collaborative effort involving the University of Nantes, the city council and a construction company. The longterm aim of the project is to figure out whether 3D printing is really a viable option for building inhabitable structures. Benoit Furet, who spearheaded the project at University of Nantes, developed the initial concept of the house.
The sizable house in Nantes measures out to 1022 square feet, equipped with four bedrooms and a large central living area. Despite the generous size of the home, it took just 54 hours to print the main structure. The team believes that they can cut this construction time down to 33 hours in the near future. This home is just a prototype and the team intend on 3D printing bigger structures in future.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this project is that the house cost just £179,000 (around $238,792) to build. This is about 20 percent cheaper than homes that are built using traditional construction methods.
The 3D printed house was built to be “allocated to a family according to the usual criteria of social housing”. That lucky family ended up being Nordine and Nouria Ramdani, along with their three children.
“It’s a big honour to be a part of this project. We lived in a block of council flats from the 60s, so it’s a big change for us. It’s really something amazing to be able to live in a place where there is a garden, and to have a detached house,” Nordine Ramdani said.
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What Does This 3D Printed Home Mean for the Future of Social Housing in France?
By using 3D printing, many architects are finding that the technology allows them to get more creative with their ideas and concepts. The house in Nantes, for example, is designed to curve around 100-year-old protected trees on the plot. Additionally, due to the reduction of material waste, the technology offers a more environmentally friendly way of building homes compared to traditional construction methods.
Other modern technologies are implemented in the 3D printed home, including digital controls, curved walls to reduce humidity and equipment to analyze aspects such as air quality, helping the tenants save on their energy bills. Better yet, all of these digitalized settings can be controlled via a smartphone.
“For 2,000 years there hasn’t been a change in the paradigm of the construction process. We wanted to sweep this whole construction process away. That’s why I’m saying that we’re at the start of a story. We’ve just written, ‘Once upon a time’,” said Francky Trichet, the council’s lead on technology and innovation.
The team believes that in five years, the cost of constructing houses will be reduced by 25 percent and as much as 40 percent in 10 to 15 years, all while still following current building regulations. This prediction takes a number of factors into account, such as 3D printing technology becoming cheaper and economies of scale as more homes are built.
Excitingly, if this future forecast goes according to schedule, we could be seeing a lot more 3D printed homes in France and throughout the world, providing the ability to construct creative architectural designs while reducing the long waiting list for those who need social housing.
In socialist europe. Remember the location. Taxes thru the freaking roof on everything.
I had about a month or so in a british house. All the dimensions are smaller. Got moved to on base housing for the remaining two months and the dimensions were much more normal, american size.
My manufactured home is 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and 1,475 square feet.
Is it that post in front of the sliding glass door?
Sure can't be that twig further out.
Q: How do you know that tree is 100 years old?
A: We cut it down and counted the rings...it'll grow back.
I hate to bring bad news but two of those trees are going to lift the slab and break it.
WTF do they think they’re doing?
500.1 miles from home.
Have a safe trip your most Honorable Nullness. Resist the void meeting the null.
If only they were in America, 1900 sqft, 4 bdrm, 2 bath modular for only $51500 or 43,009 euro.
https://www.mobilehomesdirect4less.com/product/trumh-tyson-pride/
$239k for 1022 sq ft is all you get when you’ve given over all your housing stock and building land to immigrants. And this for one “lucky family”.
4 bedrooms in 1000 Square feet and it’s generous?
This American does. We just don’t want to live in closets.
I sat in a presentation last year by a guy who talked about the future of housing, especially factory built housing. The entire building materials industry is changing rapidly.
These newer factory built companies are as he described, “digital companies who build houses” A lot of them aren’t construction guys but tech guys who think they see a better way.
There’s a new company in Baltimore, Blueprint Robotics. It’s amazing how they use robotic technologies to build the housing components that are basically snap together in the field. I’ve only been in their factory a couple times and may still be under a non-disclosure so I wont’ say more than is publicly known but it’s really cool.
There are other companies that manufacture bricks. Sounds kind of boring. Bricks are obviously heavy so transportation is a huge expense. What if the bricks were cultured from a bacteria and built in a trailer on site at a housing complex? It’s actually happening.
I’m on an advisory council for a building material installation training organization. We’re re-writing the training manual. One of my edit suggestions said that we need to include X, Y and Z, brand new building envelope technologies that are regional and moving nationwide fast. The industry can’t keep up with the speed of technology. The challenge is getting builders to adopt. Many are used to doing what they do and frankly, too busy to take the time to learn new techniques and products.
Those are the guys who are going to get left behind as the trade speeds by them like Dale Earnhardt. (Yea, I used an old legend because there are no drivers who are total household names right now)
I understand that. The reason European houses are so small is the cost. Houses are really expensive there, so they don’t build very big houses as they couldn’t sell them....too expensive. My in’laws home is less than half the size of our home, but likely worth half again as much as ours. And wages there are not even close to wages here. I worked in Britain a few decades ago and was making peanuts compared to what my salary was here. And I had the pleasure of paying 50% of my salary there in taxes. You have to pay for all that Socialism somehow.
Lucky you! Larger than the bulk of houses across Europe! Not kidding.
And I forgot to say that one of the bedrooms in my in-laws house can only fit a single bed (smaller than our single beds) and a small nightstand. The dresser is in the closet (you are expected to hang your shirts over the dresser and the other foot in the closet is for hanging dresses, etc.) It is a really nice house, but the rooms are microscopic compared to rooms in American houses.
Not Dick Trickle?
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