How to live in a house built with a 3D printer in just five days

Nail dutch couple moved to first house completely built with a 3D printer in Europe. This is a 94 square meter two bedroom bungalow in Eindhoven. The Dutch praise him for 800 euros per month ($ 960).

The building has the appearance of a giant boulder with windows and was printed on a factory nearby. “It’s a shape that’s unusual and when I first saw it, it brought back memories to me as if I had known it before. She is beautiful“, Elize said, according to the LadBible portal.

To enter the house you need a digital key. “The feeling is that of being in a bunkerSo we felt safe, ”Harrie said.

This type of building can only be built five days. These houses are expected to be used on a larger scale and function as a solution Given the housing shortage in the Netherlands, the country will need to build thousands of new properties over the next 10 years to house a steadily growing population.

The “bungalow“is carried out in concrete layers, with 24 elements printed by a machine that sprays layer after layer, giving it a ribbed texture. Then the final touches are added, such as the ceiling. The concrete used has the consistency of a paste that is strong enough to form and wet enough to stick. To complete the dwelling, the printed elements are filled with insulation.

Regarding the house, Bas Huysmans, executive director of the construction company Weber Benelux, He said it was the first 100% cleared by authorities and the first with people paying to live there.

“If you look at the time we needed to print this house, it was only 120 hours. So if we had printed all the items at once, it would have taken us less than five days, because the big advantage is that the printer doesn’t need to eat, it doesn’t need to sleep, it doesn’t. do not need to rest. ” he said.

For its part, Theo Salet, Professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven, is thinking about the use of 3D printing for houses, because in the future it will save materials and make construction more sustainable. “Because? The answer is sustainability. And the first way to achieve that is to reduce the amount of concrete we use,” he added.

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