ABC in Australia is further to the left than CNN. It is controlled by the Green Party, even though is is public owned like PBS in the USA. The population growth rate of the Netherlands has been falling for about 10 years and is only about .22% at the current rate of population growth.
A flat roof in snow country?
Utterly horrible looking. I’ve seen a number of prototypes and mockups of 3-D printed houses (typically using concrete blocks), and this one is easily the ugliest.
I like the home
1100 sq ft
The rental price is better than rents in decent parts of Nashville metro
1200.month
I found the texture detail of the concrete pour and finish remarkable
My oldest boy does specialty concrete finishing .
I’m going to send him this....thanks Nick
Kind of Adobe...
I like the idea but how are they doing plumbing and electrical?
So modern Flintstone style, I see.
According to current projections, the Netherlands population is expected to grow until 2034, when it will reach its peak of 17.5 million people. The population will begin to decline and will end the century with about 16.78 million people.
The Netherlands is currently growing at a relatively slow rate of 0.22% per year. This growth rate added about 37,742 people to the population from 2019 to 2020. The Netherlands has positive net migration of about 16,000 per year and the fertility rate is relatively low at 1.66 births per woman (below the population replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman).
Given this, the population growth is heavily driven by immigration. The Netherlands is receiving many asylum seekers from Syria.
- "Netherlands, Population 2021
Regards,
Current exchange rate: €1.00 = US$1.20.
€800 are thus US$960.
Why can't this article get its facts straight?
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it looks like an oversized chinese restaurant takeout container...
I wonder as to how soundproof it is.
What catches my eye in this story is the setting of the show house. Like many modernistic, non-traditional designs, the house shown strikes me as unattractive. What makes it acceptable in the story is the setting. It's a demo house set in isolation on an expansive lot, surrounded by a big grassy yard and framed/screened by trees. Plant ivy to cover the walls or surround it with trees and large shrubs to soften the concrete and it might blend nicely. A lot of modernist architecture is overdependent on concrete, glass or steel, which can be sterile and boring. Many modernist homes, however, are designed to open the interior to the outside (this one isn't), and compatible landscaping is essential to achieving the effect.
Expansive landscaping and large lawns, however, are not often involved in how affordable housing is usually built and sited. The question that should be asked is how this house would look with 20 of them on a city block, with another 20 facing them across the street on one side and across the alley on the other, with the pattern repeated block after block after block in all directions, with a few bedraggled shrubs thrown in on microscopic front yards or tree plats.
At the densities needed for large scale deployment, my (only partly tongue in cheek) thought would be to mound dirt over them. They would make perfectly acceptable hobbit holes if the waterproofing in the roof seams is good enough. Plant grass and small shrubs on the slopes of the mounds, and you would have Hobbiton. I've never lived in an underground house, but the concept has a certain appeal. I wouldn't want a bunker; I'd want a front door and front picture windows opening onto a nicely landscaped front yard or garden, which could be small in size and perhaps walled. If I were building a house, I probably wouldn't go that far, but I might play with a green roof with a rooftop garden. This sort of thing is always dependent on the neighborhood. In normal urban and suburban settings, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts; one always wants to blend nicely with the neighbors and do something that enhances the houses next door.
What’s so new about this? I saw 3d Concrete printed houses at a US trade show about 4 years ago.
Might work well as some sort of hybrid. Print the foundation walls then stick build the rest of the house.
How is this better than tilt wall construction techniques other than faster curing cement?
Ping.
Bkmk
Home took 120 hours (5 days) to print. OK.
And how many hours to (1) load on a hauler, (2) transport to the site, (3) erect and join the pieces on the site, (4) add exterior windows doors, roof and complete the outside, (5) finish the inside??????
Some people don’t understand that trees are a renewable industry - plant, grow, cut, use, repeated endlessly, while they soak up CO2. Which is more “green friendly”, the lumber for housing industry, or cement? I tell you now it is not the latter. The tree growth used by the lumber for housing industry is trees that are constantly being renewed.
Wait a minute! We were told a few months back that the world is headed into a sand shortage. How can we build neighborhoods of concrete houses if sand is running out?
Sand shortage could mean there won’t be enough to make glass vials for COVID vaccines
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3939900/posts