Posted on 10/19/2023 9:32:27 AM PDT by lowbridge
Tucked away on a small plot of the Woodbury University Campus in Burbank, is a concrete example of the future of homebuilding.
A 425-square-foot home, designed by Woodbury architecture students, is the first 3D printed structure to be permitted and built in the city of Los Angeles. From design to it's current form, it took only 15 months.
"It's a proof of concept that this really can be done and then can be repeated and scaled in a way that has a huge effect on our community but on the world at large even," says Dr. Barry Ryan, the president of Woodbury University.
The house was an entry into the solar decathlon, which is a collegiate competition encouraging designers to create a high performance structure powered by renewable energy - something the students are very proud of.
"I think it looks really nice. I'm glad that we kept it raw concrete...we didn't add any paints or anything like this on top of it so we can see all of the different layers and the actual material," explains recent Woodbury graduate Jade Royer.
Jessica Gomez is also a recent graduate who worked on the project.
"I also enjoy the kitchen because it uses a lot of sustainable materials as well.. so like the dining chairs and the table is made from recyclable paper, so we try to think sustainably from the building but also with how we wanted to furnish it," Gomez said.
The home's shower water is recirculated for toilet flushing, and the bending form and sloped roof are designed to maximize solar power. Mineral wool insulation also serves as a fire barrier. The concrete used helps reduce noise and preserve internal temperatures but is also an environmentally friendly formula.
The three-day printing was so precise, no concrete was wasted.
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>> Commies and their concrete dwellings.
Genuine commie dwellings have to be ugly, too. Frank Lloyd Wright this one ain’t, so it’s in the running.
My chicken house is more aesthetically pleasing.
15 months for a 425 Sq. foot home? Should not take that long.
>> AI design and 3D printing will make custom curvilinear homes increasingly common
Q: How do you drive a woke architecture grad student crazy?
A: Throw him into his custom curvilinear home and tell him to pee in the corner.
“Only” 15 months to build?
My home is 3,200+ square feet, and it took a typical approximate 90 days to build from scratch.
4 times longer than normal and looks like crap.
The price of the land has to be figured in as well. The building cost is $250,000 but you are in no position to start selling homes for anything like $250,000.
I can have a turn key 1,400 square foot on two acres for half that.
Another $20,000 and you can have a two car attached garage.
I believe the record time to build a “stick-built” house is two or 3 days. Just gotta coordinate all the steps..including the curing of the concrete such that the building wouldn’t suffer failure.. Everybody was on site and ready to install their part. I would prefer to have the concrete fully cured and hardened first. Then the coordinated building going on. Maybe 4 weeks total. Certainly not 15 months...
That’s because they won’t be needed. One primary reason 3D printed homes are less expensive is because so much less labor is involved. Fewer people to pay.
https://www.mightybuildings.com/
Too bad they didn’t have any engineering student buddies.
3D printing at scale will bring huge change to many industries including “construction”. We are already seeing this in the machining industry where replacement or repair parts can be printed immediately.
It’s a long way from perfect but its getting better by the month and history will most certainly recognize this as one of the biggest technological advances of this century.
You can probably 3d print nuclear bombs...
I believe they are printing human bone scaffolding for repair of crushed bone injuries. And liver tissue....
My dentist is using it for dental appliances such as crowns or bridges. There is an almost endless list of applications for the technology.
In college, I knew several architecture students as friends. Even without adding in wokeness, there is a strong dose of craziness in that profession.
We use 3D printing at work to prototype different packaging configurations.
Then we choose the best option and have molds made for injection molding.
See my username.
Granted, smaller houses, but they could print the same house in the original article in a few days.
The Chinese are using 3D printer technology to print Boeing large aircraft parts. They print houses, and are doing so much more than the article shows.
They must have meant 15 days...or less
...only in Kalifornia....
Students building their own gulags now: Just look at that oppressive horror.
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