Posted on 04/19/2014 6:59:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The 3D printer has been revolutionizing everything from art to medicine to accessories, and its latest foray has been into the field of architecture. Peter Ebner, architect and UCLA professor, tasked his architecture students with a homework assignment for the ages: develop a 3D-printed apartment that’s easy to transport and manage.
The class rose to the challenge and then some, constructing mini mobile homes that measure 50 square feet and are equipped with thermal insulation, electricity, water, heating, and sewage systems (which are also 3D printed). The living area comes with a collapsible counter, a foldaway toilet, a pullout bed, and a wall-sized entertainment system.
UCLA architecture and urban design studio 3M futureLAB believes these abodes would best suit the lifestyles of 25-35 year-olds, and one Chinese corporation has already indicated an interest in producing several hundred of these contraptions over the next two years.
The Ruling Class would love to put all the proletariat in these.
This technology can do more to get housing for poor people than all of the “affordable housing” government programs put together. We need to push the US and all state and local governments to adopt some of this technology and amend building codes. Then get rid of all the housing agencies.
Dems planning our future...
I think I've seen them before.
Too much privacy, they want us in huge dorms. The commune lifestyle will minimize personal property and the concept of personal space/property.
The photos sure don’t reveal much do they.
“Get ‘Em Out By Friday.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-TwWnn0dk
u Gott that right!
Printing with concrete seems to be advancing at a pretty rapid pace.
3-D printing for space. (Narrated by a conservative too)
My dog’s house is bigger than that.
“The Ruling Class would love to put all the proletariat in these.”
Indeed. And when you die they can just bury you in it.
I bet the “professor” won’t volunteer to live in one himself to prove his wonderful concept.
Its very cool technology.
I can’t imagind any human living in such a piece of shit!
It should be illegal to build any living quarter of less than 1,000 sq, ft!
I’m not impressed. Although I see a future in making coffins.
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