Take a tour of this 3D printed house at SXSW

kxan ^ | Mar. 15, 2018 | Kate Winkle

[bgill]

Austin could soon be home to 3D printed houses, if one company showing its model at South By Southwest is able to work with the city to get approval. The home at SXSW is the first permitted 3D printed house in the country. The Austin-based startup ICON plans to print 100 homes in El Salvador next year, and wants the creations to be part of the solution for communities with major housing needs, according to Alex Le Roux, ICON CEO and one of the co-founders... It currently costs about $10,000 to print a 650-square-foot single story house using cement. The process takes between 12 and 24 hours, according to one of ICON's founders, Jason Ballard... In the future, the company hopes to reduce the costs of building to closer to $4,000 per house.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Nice photos on post #38

[robroys woman]

32 acres of land in Kentucky basically sounds like paradise.

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It is. :)

We've lived here for 7 years now. We live on five acres of lawn and field at the top of a knob, surrounded by forest. Completely secluded. Entry is from the valley below. And last week I FINALLY bought a zero turn 60" mower. We used to only mow an acre around the house. I now do the full five acres and do it in less time and less gas.

My motto: Rural Kentucky is like the garden of Eden but with more chiggers. Oh, and it is a motorcyclist's paradise.

This is what roughly half of my daily commute looks like every day, which is why I drive an FRS. No cops...

[robroys woman]

Exactly. And if you maintain a sheet metal building, it will last pretty much forever. At least it will last a lot longer than you will. Sheet metal roofs are awesome, especially if you LIKE the sound of the rain, which we do.

[chris37]

Paradise! Just as I suspected :D

Truly breathtaking.

[V K Lee]

Those permits alone will kill your budget. Just speaking with someone today who had a hot water heater replacement. The cost for a needed PERMIT (city) was $75 dollars. Ridiculous.

Driving around a few weekends ago went through a small Texas town close to Collinsville. A lovely metal building-house, 2 story, 11.5 acres. 2 Texas highways traveling along side. A VERY nice place for 300,000. The location would not be conducive for sleep, I’m thinking but who knows. At least the train track is on the other side of town.
Realtors now are listing the selling price of homes and their listings usually show the monthly taxes due on the property/house. They forever have their hand in your pocket.

My hubby lived in Seattle 40-50 years ago. He just loved it. The days of wine and roses. In today’s Seattle things might be seen much differently.

[Future Snake Eater]

TX’s property taxes are higher than even WA. I’d pay the same dollar amount in property taxes in El Paso for a pretty good house as I do on my pretty good (much more expensive) house near Tacoma. TX needs to get a handle on that nonsense.

[V K Lee]

It seems they place a tax on everything and each year it increases. When we moved from Dallas to Collin county taxes were reasonable, and owning 10 acres we were able to get an Agriculture rate for ranchers/farmers. Since that time, 40 years ago, they have blossomed into full blown highway robbery. What’s more, the streets/roads/highways are in need of repair, The town square needs beautifying BUT we now have a brand new car/pickup/vehicle for every city, county employee I do believe. They can be seen each day lined up next to one another on the main road running thru town. We have no State Income Tax which is a good thing. No matter the rising cost....having been born in Dallas, Texas has been and hoped to always be home. Couldn’t bear to leave it for anywhere else. AAHH, remembering when - before all these liberals found their way down and over to this neck of the woods.

[robroys woman]

Two things:
First, when we built our own house in the Seattle area in 1966 (I was in Jr High at the time), we paid just under $7 for a building permit. When I left the area for Kentucky back in 2011, the price of a building permit in King County was over $30,000.

That’s some serious inflation right there. :)

Second, I read an article in a San Francisco paper back in the late 80’s from one of their writers that had visited Seattle. Her article was about Seattle and lamented that the San Francisco of the time of the writing was a pit, and it used to be beautiful. As she described the beauty and politics of Seattle she said that it reminded her of San Francisco ten years before.

And here we are, decades later. Both are pretty from a distance, but are pits of filth, both physical and cultural, when you get close up.

This is why I moved to rural KY. I’m currently building mountain biking and hiking trails on my 32 acres with two streams. Seattle was a nice place - when you could actually get around and find easy parking (and it was kept clean).