But, is it not still Chinese? whats the name of one of the dialects? that like living in Britain, Southern USA, etc.....its different dialects but it's still English. Right?
Nooo, please think about the poor banks who will lose out on loaning fiat paper money to the average slave citizen. The peons need to work all of their lives to pay for shelter for themselves. We can't have people with free time on their hands to create and prosper.
***** Safety regulation are a waste of time. An insurance could guarantee it a lot better: they must balance safety and costs. It is absurd to have safety when it cost too much and make a home unaffordable or obsolete because the regulators are risk averse or captured.
Any serious structure made of concrete requires rebar... an internal structure of metal. Concrete does well under compression, but is relatively weak in tensile strength. When a lateral force may be applied to the building (like wind and earthquakes), you want rebar in the structure, especially for taller buildings. If you're diluting concrete with industrial waste, you're not going to get as strong of a bond once the concrete is cured. Under heavy loads, you don't want a structure made of anything brittle.
What is the R-factor of the buildings? What is the vapor and moisture retain/escape ratio? What is the vent and air circulation -%? Cement -and cement only construction is not ideal for every application and climate. I do not see any reinforcing? -not even a mesh-like for stucco.
I don't think building houses fast enough is the problem in the UK, Its the fact the land is all been bought by land speculators who wont sell unless they get a ridiculous return on their investment. unfortunately this systematic greed is forcing Millennials out of the housing market (and out the country.)
+Banter Board Making things require less labor and hence cheaper Leeds to increased demand elsewhere. Its awful for the pepole trained who have to change jobs as the demand has gone elsware sometimes where there a shortage of people sometimes where theres a glut.
Then you would become extremely poor very quickly and not many people will appreciate it anyways. When people get free stuff they love it for a day and forget the doner the next day. Thats from my past eperience. Rather how abt if you had such machine you could rent the houses out to tennents and 50% of profit is reserved to build cheaper accomodation for charities?
This tech is perfect for building emergency houses after disasters, like the tsunamis in Japan and Sri Lanka, and would be great for building hospitals in Africa for the Ebola epidemic.
Anthony Fink I'm assuming those houses haven't had any waterproofing done to show off how they look like after the printing, otherwise it would conceal everything and they would look like normal buildings.
Anthony Fink With the correct additives it can be. Even concrete brick isn't 'water proof' when initially installed, but an additive makes it more water proof as it weathers. (A friend sells the additives that do this.)
Revoku The air pockets will provide only minimal insulation. The material acts as a thermic bridge and to get decent insulation something else is definitely needed. In this case external insulation panels would be the best I think, as they simultaneously provide an aesthetic finish.
+Saitama “Caped Baldy” why does stuff made in China find buyer's in the EWE.S.A.? because yankee doodles who rarely use their noodles like to use shit and throw it away China as supplier to the demand of 'we the sheeple' in the US are a match made in heaven I would think
***** ''I'm an angry American, don't you dare joke about me!!!!'' It's alright, I don't blame you. Combined with the shit education you've probably had It does not surprise me you don't have a sense of humor to go with it.
Cristiano Alves No, no, no. We shouldn't kill animals for sport but, for food then, yes, I'm Okay with that. Africans might taste like chicken, very slender biff meat. My mouth is totally watering just thinking about it!
Yep. In Korea, we're making 3d printing machines that can print electricity conducting "wires" WHILE printing the plastic polymers around it. So basically, it will be a functional 3d circuit "board." that can be turned ON as soon as it comes out of the printer.. well, you'll have to put the battery in it first.
This is a great concept to build houses for many, both higher cost homes for people who can afford it, but also low income homes. Having a home out of the weather makes a great contribution to humanity! I am wondering about the point where the nozzle that deposits the concrete mixture in a zig-zag fashion flows the mix inside the hollow wall. It seems each point of contact with the inner wall would not be all that great of a bond. It must work as you have built many successful homes. It just appears to me to be a weak point. I am only amateur, but is it a weak point or is the bond very good? Thanks for making this video and for creating such a great revelutionary way to house all people at a low cost and without cutting down trees, a much more environmental way of construction.
I had known about the ten houses in a day for almost a month now, but this is the first I've heard about the company's office being printed in the same way. (more likely the exterior walls are clad in the printed concrete for the look. Still, it makes an impressive statement.)
it's actually "recycling mine tailings". Mine tailings are the waste produced when mining, with a lot of them having cementitious properties that can be used in concrete mixtures.
FlyingGrunt28 Toxic to the environment yes when not stored correctly. I'm not an expert on this topic but I do know that concrete mixtures with added tailings to replace cement are highly attractive because it reduces the waste in the environment and reduces cement used (cement production releases large amounts of CO2). Replacing cement with tailings is a strong area of scientific research.
Here in summer 2024. What’s their update? I’m seeing stuff from American company ICON but this company had a huge head-start and I would like to know what they are doing now.
What about a 3D printing as a decomposition (de-compiler) of trash? Or after building demolishing, using 3D printing as a follow-on for refuse cleanup. Cool fast-track construction: A City Made In Months (near future?).
My group is developing a microfluidic 3D printing system with ultra-fast mixing so we can inject two liquids such as acrylate-catalyst and metal-acid combinations and eject a solid with resolution in the low microns and speeds up to 20 meters/second.
There is a fine line between 3D printing and factory automation. Original 3D printing was making small objects with a device the same size as a printer and using other materials instead of ink. When you get to much larger objects you have moved into the realm of automation.
The Salt Project by a Dutch Architect by the name of Eric Geboers will be using waste salt left over from solar evaporation of ocean water to build a sustainable city out of salt and a starch made from algae. A very hard brick can be made and a epoxy will seal in the brick and structure to make it water proof. It would be interesting to see if the salt and starch mortar could be used in this 3D application. Or could the waste brine be mixed in with the cement?
Would need some kind of secondary arm or layout with which implemented better structurally sound walls and foundations (like adding in re-bar). A weak earthquake seems like it would shake this thing to pieces. Would not hold up to modern building codes... :(
can I make a remark here. As cool as 3d printing is its not an efficient solution for house building ! What you need is pre-manufactured components that can be assembled on site. They have better performance the house can be moved when necessary or the parts can be efficiently used in other buildings.
Are you asking? Because this is a modified shape copy of the concrete printer Loughborough university developed in 2007. They used it to 3D print sculptures and benches due to space constraints. They used power station ash to augment the cement to reduce carbon footprint but that's all I remember. It looked like a giant 7-8 meter cube version of a normal desktop 3D printer. It wasn't as fast, but this is early concrete 3D printing on PhD budget designed by 19-25 year olds.
It doesn't appear that each layer being put down is adequately coalescing with the previous layer. Also not able to include rebar. Thus, the stucture is very weak. Not up to code. NIce idea but needs work.
I first heard of 3D house-printing from the brilliant genius, *Jacque Fresco* & to see this thought-of idea that was once only theoretical, come to fruition is just beautiful! Double, triple x Double thumps upp!!! :D ...
The Contour Crafting folks have been at it for some time. But they just haven't seem to have the commercial stroke. I think they got started as a research project or similar. Good effort, but if you can't deliver, the market doesn't care.
this could potentially be an answer for helping the Refugees in Europe. Winter is slowly drawing near and shelters are going to be crucial at this point.
Printers are getting bigger and better. Making a gigantic printer like that that can print to .001 micron would be an achievement. Then you could pretty much make anything I guess, if it would have a big enough work area.
For this use, 1mm accuracy is plenty sufficient. Not everything requires micron level accuracy. All it needs is 'appropriate' accuracy for the task. In this case a thousandth of a micron is overkill.
i dont get it. why need so many layers when you can just have one single block of concrete as your wall? just make a mould of the wall structure, and pour concrete in from the top? wouldnt that be even faster?
It's because you'd have to make molds for all the stuff and the pouring might include air bubbles, which would weaken the structure. This gives a steady stream, less chance for air bubbles, and you can change the design of the wall structure without having to waste time trying to build a new mold. Imagine what would happen if someone broke the mold, they'd have to try and make a whole new one to replace it. That would be a waste of time and money as a result.
***** I see what you mean. Also, I believe I'd recently found something where just that is going to happen. They will print up the walls out of cement using the same process.
john smith Because air pockets serve as insulation and wastes less material when you don't need for it to be that hard. But what they don't tell you in this vid is traditional poured concrete buildings have a pre-built steel bar structure that can hold onto the piece when it cracks or on earthquakes. When the concrete ages and cracks and weathers, a good earthquake will not only make giant pieces fall on you, but the the wall can fold without the vertical steel bars holding the "broken sections" together. He's building a large heavy domino house. But China doesn't care, they have too many ppl as it is so their lawas aren't strict like ours.
A U.S. inventor created 3d printing so I don't understand why people are saying look outside the U.S.. If you looked outside America you would find a lot of dead ends, after all you can't expect the people copying you to be any better than what you already have
This is not really printing, it is more CNC layering. Great idea which is sure to grow. The layering could be done onto of a reinforced armature to give added strength.
These walls have no reinforcement because the machine cant install rebar as it pours. I don't know what the building codes are like in China, but these walls are unsafe and illegally poorly made for use in the US.
Wow - its fast, strong, precise, safe, versatile, sustainable, scalable....such novel thinking! Imagine how this technology could be used to construct "site-specific" homes/architecture - they already demonstrated its ability to construct multiple rectangular shaped houses, but these designs have no relationship to the structure of the land and the weather/wind/sunlight patterns of the building location....site specific architecture requires custom designs based on maximizing the energy efficiency of the home and minimize the upkeep and power consumption necessary to inhabit it. So, 3d printing offers inherent versatility because the materials are extruded in any direction, making it perfect for customizing the design for the build site. By utilizing data from the land and integrating it with the design of a building, the outcome would have greater benefits across the board. Software like Rhino3D and Autodesk programs can combine 3d topographical maps & geological surveys with flow maps, use models, and structural requirements using algorithms that generate forms and structures that work within the parameters derived from such data - there are already many architects using such data driven methodologies to design homes of the near future, check out mark fornes and the very many, he worked for zaha hadid to design buildings from data models and im sure lots of other better examples out there, but its a start. Very inspiring!
Cool concept here - the recycling aspect of it is what's most appealing to me. Probably going to be rather hard to implement it on a functional scale though - you're pretty much relying on that machine head nozzle to fabricate the entire component... so, not a replacement for human hands and certainly not a replacement for existing assembly line manufacturing processes, but very cool.
Why is everyone excited about a shell? In order to run electrical, plumbing, insulation, hang cabinetry etc, your are going to need to build internal walls. You've just added a layer if complexity and cost. Btw would you want up live in a concrete home without rebar in an earthquake zone?
Small houses or shed like building is ok with this technology. But when talking about tall or big buildings then this is not suitable as it is very weak building with only cement and no metal support.
They can place metal rebar in the beginning, and then print around it, just like in-situ concrete structural elements in normal construction. Plus, who knows, someone may invent a way to 3d print much stronger materials
Agree, this is still in the initial stage. If they pump money into research and development. This could replace the ways how common house are build these days.
What The world can Do without CHINA?? USA MAKE WAR But China Make Our happines thank you so much
USA saved our asses a few times so please shut up
Talk about u they did nothing for me.... and USA make War everyone know it
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MURICA FUCK YEAH!
wife: honey,what are you doing?
husband: not much just printing our new house
wife: when we are moving in?
husband: tomorrow
This is the future...
To everyone making fun of Chinese people that speak English: how is your Chinese?
Delicious : )
That's like saying how is your American. Chinese people speak a dialect
But, is it not still Chinese? whats the name of one of the dialects? that like living in Britain, Southern USA, etc.....its different dialects but it's still English. Right?
Ursula Johns There is no such thing as Chinese, but Mandarin and Cantonese exist. British people do not speak British, but they do speak english
+BoneKRusher02 I know the British speak english lol that's why I used them as an example. But thanks though :)
Nooo, please think about the poor banks who will lose out on loaning fiat paper money to the average slave citizen. The peons need to work all of their lives to pay for shelter for themselves. We can't have people with free time on their hands to create and prosper.
Shhhhh they might buy the 3d printing companies
Prepare for building construction companies to get pissed off
Prepare for building construction companies to lobby lawmakers for "safety regulation" to protect consumers.
"Someone think to the children!!!"
He found out one great trick!
Construction companies hate him!
***** Safety regulation are a waste of time.
An insurance could guarantee it a lot better: they must balance safety and costs. It is absurd to have safety when it cost too much and make a home unaffordable or obsolete because the regulators are risk averse or captured.
***** You need to understand the difference between correlation and causality.
eh, 3D printed houses arent as good as normal built houses.
Atleast not yet. So they can calm down.
Any serious structure made of concrete requires rebar... an internal structure of metal. Concrete does well under compression, but is relatively weak in tensile strength. When a lateral force may be applied to the building (like wind and earthquakes), you want rebar in the structure, especially for taller buildings. If you're diluting concrete with industrial waste, you're not going to get as strong of a bond once the concrete is cured. Under heavy loads, you don't want a structure made of anything brittle.
Man with vision for an efficient and more environmentally friendly building method - Most Excellent!
What is the R-factor of the buildings? What is the vapor and moisture retain/escape ratio? What is the vent and air circulation -%? Cement -and cement only construction is not ideal for every application and climate. I do not see any reinforcing? -not even a mesh-like for stucco.
I don't think building houses fast enough is the problem in the UK, Its the fact the land is all been bought by land speculators who wont sell unless they get a ridiculous return on their investment. unfortunately this systematic greed is forcing Millennials out of the housing market (and out the country.)
We need this technology implemented in Ireland right now. There is no excuse for homelessness.
Good news is that this could greatly reduce housing prices. Bad news is that this could also greatly reduce construction industry employment.
+Banter Board Making things require less labor and hence cheaper Leeds to increased demand elsewhere.
Its awful for the pepole trained who have to change jobs as the demand has gone elsware sometimes where there a shortage of people sometimes where theres a glut.
if i was a billionaire i would buy this 3d printer and print small houses and give them to charity.
Then you would become extremely poor very quickly and not many people will appreciate it anyways. When people get free stuff they love it for a day and forget the doner the next day. Thats from my past eperience. Rather how abt if you had such machine you could rent the houses out to tennents and 50% of profit is reserved to build cheaper accomodation for charities?
This tech is perfect for building emergency houses after disasters, like the tsunamis in Japan and Sri Lanka, and would be great for building hospitals in Africa for the Ebola epidemic.
You wouldn't steal a house.
im so gonna pirate the white house.
Swärje is good
ShoTz it äs dä bäst
Knugen av Swärje alltid
Now just stuff some good insulation into those walls and I'm ready to move in!
the sealed air pockets would make great insulation, like a thermos for your coffee, as long as its sealed like it is, it provides great insulation
Revoku except concrete isn't waterproof...
Anthony Fink
I'm assuming those houses haven't had any waterproofing done to show off how they look like after the printing, otherwise it would conceal everything and they would look like normal buildings.
Anthony Fink With the correct additives it can be. Even concrete brick isn't 'water proof' when initially installed, but an additive makes it more water proof as it weathers. (A friend sells the additives that do this.)
Revoku The air pockets will provide only minimal insulation. The material acts as a thermic bridge and to get decent insulation something else is definitely needed. In this case external insulation panels would be the best I think, as they simultaneously provide an aesthetic finish.
THAT'S AWESOME!!! I gonna print my future home!
Still more durable than any house in the US.
+Saitama “Caped Baldy”
why does stuff made in China find buyer's in the EWE.S.A.?
because yankee doodles who rarely use their noodles like to use shit and throw it away
China as supplier to the demand of 'we the sheeple' in the US are a match made in heaven I would think
***** ''I'm an angry American, don't you dare joke about me!!!!'' It's alright, I don't blame you. Combined with the shit education you've probably had It does not surprise me you don't have a sense of humor to go with it.
***** That hurrr was genuine wasn't it.
+Saitama “Caped Baldy” But they produce cheap shit and sell it to the rest of the world while making good shit for themselves.
Of course, its more solid than " American chip boards "
Bring it to Africa pls. All these black people want my house.
Build one and sell houses to them. It is really not that difficult.
Kill them, then eat'em. To gain their powers!
Cristiano Alves No, no, no. We shouldn't kill animals for sport but, for food then, yes, I'm Okay with that. Africans might taste like chicken, very slender biff meat. My mouth is totally watering just thinking about it!
What the hell...?
NOPE nerp It's a troll, duh.
Yep. In Korea, we're making 3d printing machines that can print electricity conducting "wires" WHILE printing the plastic polymers around it. So basically, it will be a functional 3d circuit "board." that can be turned ON as soon as it comes out of the printer.. well, you'll have to put the battery in it first.
Ya'know, if they used Gingerbread, Chocolate, ect, they could make a Candy House.
This is a great concept to build houses for many, both higher cost homes for people who can afford it, but also low income homes. Having a home out of the weather makes a great contribution to humanity! I am wondering about the point where the nozzle that deposits the concrete mixture in a zig-zag fashion flows the mix inside the hollow wall. It seems each point of contact with the inner wall would not be all that great of a bond. It must work as you have built many successful homes. It just appears to me to be a weak point. I am only amateur, but is it a weak point or is the bond very good? Thanks for making this video and for creating such a great revelutionary way to house all people at a low cost and without cutting down trees, a much more environmental way of construction.
brilliant
while printing they could lay down wire reinforcing to strengthen the structure.
A great piece of engineering technology
This guy is my hero, lol imagine the homes you could make.
I had known about the ten houses in a day for almost a month now, but this is the first I've heard about the company's office being printed in the same way. (more likely the exterior walls are clad in the printed concrete for the look. Still, it makes an impressive statement.)
it's actually "recycling mine tailings". Mine tailings are the waste produced when mining, with a lot of them having cementitious properties that can be used in concrete mixtures.
Isnt it also toxic?
FlyingGrunt28 Toxic to the environment yes when not stored correctly. I'm not an expert on this topic but I do know that concrete mixtures with added tailings to replace cement are highly attractive because it reduces the waste in the environment and reduces cement used (cement production releases large amounts of CO2). Replacing cement with tailings is a strong area of scientific research.
Here in summer 2024. What’s their update? I’m seeing stuff from American company ICON but this company had a huge head-start and I would like to know what they are doing now.
What about a 3D printing as a decomposition (de-compiler) of trash? Or after building demolishing, using 3D printing as a follow-on for refuse cleanup. Cool fast-track construction: A City Made In Months (near future?).
My group is developing a microfluidic 3D printing system with ultra-fast mixing so we can inject two liquids such as acrylate-catalyst and metal-acid combinations and eject a solid with resolution in the low microns and speeds up to 20 meters/second.
One day comment threads will not be spurred by racism or ignorance...
This is amazing technology, I can't wait for it to become more mainstream.
kind of yeah it uuuhhh it still exists its used sometimes
There is a fine line between 3D printing and factory automation. Original 3D printing was making small objects with a device the same size as a printer and using other materials instead of ink. When you get to much larger objects you have moved into the realm of automation.
Hi, where is the video on the apartment building they printed? Thank you for this lovely and rare video.
Suzhou,China. A city near Shanghai.
The Salt Project by a Dutch Architect by the name of Eric Geboers will be using waste salt left over from solar evaporation of ocean water to build a sustainable city out of salt and a starch made from algae. A very hard brick can be made and a epoxy will seal in the brick and structure to make it water proof. It would be interesting to see if the salt and starch mortar could be used in this 3D application. Or could the waste brine be mixed in with the cement?
What a time to live in
They should 3d print hempcrete. Do a search on Hempcrete and you will be amazed at it. Cheers!
I think you will find a Brick house made with skilled hands is hard to beat.
Would need some kind of secondary arm or layout with which implemented better structurally sound walls and foundations (like adding in re-bar). A weak earthquake seems like it would shake this thing to pieces. Would not hold up to modern building codes... :(
can I make a remark here. As cool as 3d printing is its not an efficient solution for house building ! What you need is pre-manufactured components that can be assembled on site. They have better performance the house can be moved when necessary or the parts can be efficiently used in other buildings.
That would be good where high residential construction costs exists. It can spawn more affordable housing without sacrificing design.
Who said that Chinese can only copy .???? ;) ;) ;)
maybe the so called number one in the world who have been using all our products and Japanese machines and English languages and Italian shoes, etc.
Are you asking? Because this is a modified shape copy of the concrete printer Loughborough university developed in 2007.
They used it to 3D print sculptures and benches due to space constraints. They used power station ash to augment the cement to reduce carbon footprint but that's all I remember. It looked like a giant 7-8 meter cube version of a normal desktop 3D printer. It wasn't as fast, but this is early concrete 3D printing on PhD budget designed by 19-25 year olds.
It doesn't appear that each layer being put down is adequately coalescing with the previous layer. Also not able to include rebar. Thus, the stucture is very weak. Not up to code. NIce idea but needs work.
I first heard of 3D house-printing from the brilliant genius, *Jacque Fresco* & to see this thought-of idea that was once only theoretical, come to fruition is just beautiful!
Double, triple x Double thumps upp!!! :D ...
Looks like he beat "Contour Crafting" to market. Good on him, faster faster!
The Contour Crafting folks have been at it for some time. But they just haven't seem to have the commercial stroke. I think they got started as a research project or similar. Good effort, but if you can't deliver, the market doesn't care.
this could potentially be an answer for helping the Refugees in Europe. Winter is slowly drawing near and shelters are going to be crucial at this point.
I didn't see any rebar in the cement structure; this would normally indicate that these structures are not very strong.
This is awesome.
Zone Television I agree :D
Printers are getting bigger and better. Making a gigantic printer like that that can print to .001 micron would be an achievement. Then you could pretty much make anything I guess, if it would have a big enough work area.
For this use, 1mm accuracy is plenty sufficient. Not everything requires micron level accuracy. All it needs is 'appropriate' accuracy for the task. In this case a thousandth of a micron is overkill.
i dont get it. why need so many layers when you can just have one single block of concrete as your wall? just make a mould of the wall structure, and pour concrete in from the top? wouldnt that be even faster?
It's because you'd have to make molds for all the stuff and the pouring might include air bubbles, which would weaken the structure. This gives a steady stream, less chance for air bubbles, and you can change the design of the wall structure without having to waste time trying to build a new mold.
Imagine what would happen if someone broke the mold, they'd have to try and make a whole new one to replace it. That would be a waste of time and money as a result.
***** I see what you mean. Also, I believe I'd recently found something where just that is going to happen. They will print up the walls out of cement using the same process.
john smith having a 3d printer to do the work instead of hiring labourers saves cost in the long run
john smith Because air pockets serve as insulation and wastes less material when you don't need for it to be that hard. But what they don't tell you in this vid is traditional poured concrete buildings have a pre-built steel bar structure that can hold onto the piece when it cracks or on earthquakes. When the concrete ages and cracks and weathers, a good earthquake will not only make giant pieces fall on you, but the the wall can fold without the vertical steel bars holding the "broken sections" together. He's building a large heavy domino house. But China doesn't care, they have too many ppl as it is so their lawas aren't strict like ours.
This is obviously the future. Saves sooooo much time, energy and money
A U.S. inventor created 3d printing so I don't understand why people are saying look outside the U.S.. If you looked outside America you would find a lot of dead ends, after all you can't expect the people copying you to be any better than what you already have
Interesting - but I'm not so sure about the strength in an earthquake - there didn't appear to be good bonding between the shell and the webbing.
Thank you Chuck Hull for your amazing invention.
It has to be shown to an architect, so that he'd consult as to the architecturally valid design.
This is not really printing, it is more CNC layering. Great idea which is sure to grow. The layering could be done onto of a reinforced armature to give added strength.
3d printing is cnc layering actually
Incredible; love the concept..
the big concern is always the materials so good job
It seems that they're printing the equivalent of a wall that could have simply been extruded from a mold with that truss-like shape. Why??
1:32 You are recycling WHAT?
"Mah titties"
>_> Or just "materials."
You better find another "pasion", civil engineers...
what is about compression, tension and shear forces consideration ??
Chinese wikipedia notes a higher efficiency cement as well
Nice Lets Just Hope USA Catches An Idea Of What's Going On Outside Our Country!!
i thought you guys never care what is going on inside your country, storm killing people and all the president cares is sanctioning my new country :)
These walls have no reinforcement because the machine cant install rebar as it pours. I don't know what the building codes are like in China, but these walls are unsafe and illegally poorly made for use in the US.
NOPE nerp Sooo the trailerparks are just a myth then.
talk about the Great War of China , built by stones and congree
Olga Kostyunina you mean "wall" I believe?
INVENTOR? JACQUES FRESCO !!
the venus project
I think the folks at 'Contour Crafted' was doing this a few years ago. Just not on this scale.
So that's how they could build a hospital in 10 days during the Coronavirus.
the cement is easy to break because there's no steel support inside on it.
Wow - its fast, strong, precise, safe, versatile, sustainable, scalable....such novel thinking! Imagine how this technology could be used to construct "site-specific" homes/architecture - they already demonstrated its ability to construct multiple rectangular shaped houses, but these designs have no relationship to the structure of the land and the weather/wind/sunlight patterns of the building location....site specific architecture requires custom designs based on maximizing the energy efficiency of the home and minimize the upkeep and power consumption necessary to inhabit it. So, 3d printing offers inherent versatility because the materials are extruded in any direction, making it perfect for customizing the design for the build site. By utilizing data from the land and integrating it with the design of a building, the outcome would have greater benefits across the board. Software like Rhino3D and Autodesk programs can combine 3d topographical maps & geological surveys with flow maps, use models, and structural requirements using algorithms that generate forms and structures that work within the parameters derived from such data - there are already many architects using such data driven methodologies to design homes of the near future, check out mark fornes and the very many, he worked for zaha hadid to design buildings from data models and im sure lots of other better examples out there, but its a start. Very inspiring!
Any idea how is the reinforcement done?
the y, z and x axis prop have a precision of 1 cm
No Re bar?
If they can think of a way to maybe it will meet codes in US.
It is SRC concrete.
It says using cement and construction wastes, but what is it( the construction waste) concluded??
More building ... No empty land
in freakin sane man. i was just curious on building a house and here's some dude printing one. what the heck
Cool concept here - the recycling aspect of it is what's most appealing to me. Probably going to be rather hard to implement it on a functional scale though - you're pretty much relying on that machine head nozzle to fabricate the entire component... so, not a replacement for human hands and certainly not a replacement for existing assembly line manufacturing processes, but very cool.
And how does the house get from the 3D printer to its location?
Why is everyone excited about a shell? In order to run electrical, plumbing, insulation, hang cabinetry etc, your are going to need to build internal walls. You've just added a layer if complexity and cost.
Btw would you want up live in a concrete home without rebar in an earthquake zone?
Ma is getting a law sues very soon from the orignal investor.
Nice, but I wonder?! Cat it hold without steel?
WOW!!! Impresive technology.
Amazing technology!
This is the future.
What happens when it rains especially if you get a really hard one for days?
So he made a large building out of concrete and didn't put anything inside it like rebar?
where is the metal frame?
Why are we not funding this?
Small houses or shed like building is ok with this technology. But when talking about tall or big buildings then this is not suitable as it is very weak building with only cement and no metal support.
i agree and also printing food with this isn't FDA approved and not suitable for eating
that may be at the moment, but this is only the beginning. It seems safe to say this process can only improve.
believe me this technology has only just begun to evolve..
They can place metal rebar in the beginning, and then print around it, just like in-situ concrete structural elements in normal construction.
Plus, who knows, someone may invent a way to 3d print much stronger materials
Agree, this is still in the initial stage. If they pump money into research and development. This could replace the ways how common house are build these days.
think of using cob material instead of cement, will be even cheaper and healthier.
Is this putting people to work or taking work from them?
Looks like brick layers won't be required
That is truly phenomenal! A really prominent technic! Looking forward for even more incredible breakthroughs.
He said Recycling materials for those who need hearing assistance... lol
Do you think that we will keep develop better?
How about 2 storey houses?
how big are the printers used to make these buildings?
+Sara Stuart didn't you see it? its in the video
its not a house.. its a coffin. that was just a way they build something without steelbar.
It's all fine and dandy until your newly formed 3d printed building collapses from an earthquake or gets easily torn apart by a hurricane.
I like it. superb idea
god, 10000sqm in a month...
that was crazy
Their English is on spot 😂😂