My only concern would be fire. Years ago I worked in a prototype plastic house that was supposed to be the way of the future. You couldn't tell it was plastic but it was supposed to be very flammable and had really toxic fumes, hence why it never caught on. Our fire procedure was that at the first sign of fire everyone had to get out immediately, not even trying to put out a bin fire. I'm sure things have advanced a lot since then but I'd like to know the fire safety in these houses.
@@shlby69m Yes, but ignites less essily and burns much more slowly. And it does not give off the toxic fumes plastics do. These fumes cause the deaths that result from smoke inhalation.
Very cool concept and tech, but I'm not sold on the affordable housing angle. Multiply that shed-sized unit a few times to get to the sq ft-age of a bungalow and well, you got a bungalow for the price of a bungalow. This feels more adapted to the glamping or AirBnB industry and perhaps or to add value to your property with a small rental unit, guest house, separate WFH office in their yard, etc. Ultimately, I'm not sure how affordable this is unless you're generating income with it. Kudos for re-using waste and striving for a zero-waste operation!
That price though. I personally believe California should look at building EarthShips and any homeless person volunteering their labor to build them will not only learn a skill but will be able to live in one.
I've been daydreaming of a massive earth ship structure built as sort of a high ceilinged multi story parking garage, but for rv-ers, but with wide balcony views and terrace gardens and underground communal spaces.
Add. the cost of a Lot in some County that Has Codes that Allow this new mini home. Cost to Connect to. Septic and Electric., Cost of Foundation. ----- 80,000. -- 100,000. for these ? What Bank will. grant a mortgage for all this. -- good luck.with it
Kirsten I've been following you since you're documentary release over 12 years ago... your content and research into emerging lifestyle tech and trends never fails to excite!
There is a huge problem with ppl ingesting microplasctics from daily use of plastic bottles so I dont think living inside a plastic bottle is a good move. Hard pass for me. Side note: these tiny homes are ridiculously overpriced. I cant belive this dude is selling plastic closets for 50k each 😂.
I’m not sure if y’all can imagine how much the cost was to invent this ability to recycle plastics and turn them into homes. Let’s wait and see if he can get the price of the equipment down and hopefully the price of the home will go down as well.
Price is the finished product including plumbing, electricity, kitchen, bed and bath. What does a 900 sq ft house sell for in LA today? Zillow says a 1300 sq ft house in Los Angeles is worth $1.3 million, and an empty quarter acre lot is $475K. THat means 1300 sf house (built in 1923) is $825K.
I think this is an amazing beginning. Anytime new ideas are introduced, there are always nay sayers who tear an idea down without supplying any solutions themselves. Everything is imperfect in the beginning. This will be continually improving. I think this a is a positive beginning to use the mountains of plastics we have 🤩
You're right, they are very early innovators with this. We were talking with them about mining the Great Pacific Garbage Patch so yes, it will take a long time to exhaust their supply chains.
You still have to get the permits from the County, have the utilities installed, hookup plumbing....so the cost overall it's possible could skyrocket to $100K.
Municipal governments and their hunger for taxes and power are a major contributor to the housing crisis. There was a time, admittedly long ago, when you could build a house without being hindered by expensive permits and development fees. to say nothing of the excessive delays in getting such permits. Governments are supposed to serve us, but increasingly they appear to be our enemy and are hostile to our needs and wants.
It depends on where you live. In places more rural there is no impact assessment and no building codes with permits being basic and on the inexpensive side. Flush toilets may become obsolete as it costs so much money to use gallons of potable water and then infrastructure to take it to be processed and cleaned before discharging into some body of water. Incinerating or composting toilets make more sense especially in areas where water is scarce. Plus poop and vegetable waste can be used to create methane that can be used to create electricity for heating or public transportation.
How well does this house cancel out noise? If a noise sensitive person were to live in such house would they hear everything from outside or not? Are windows also made from recycled material? How well do they stop noise? I love how beautiful the shapes are ♥ However the house is function first aesthetics second. At least in theory :)
This is the next best frontier of reusing materials and and even sourcing from landfills, oceans cleanup and and even garbage collection in materials science. From Apple Watch bands to modular homes. Making it affordable and off grid and hurricane proof. I’m loving it.
These pods could really come into the own to provide temporary housing for people displaced by disaster events (i.e. bushfire, floods, earthquake etc).
How would these hold up in a desert environment, say upper desert Arizona, that can have four seasons? It's mentioned they're made of recycled plastic and other ingredients. Are some of the other ingredients fire retardants? Wondering how it handles that, and the heat of the Sun.
This could be a great way to help with the homeless situation in a lot of countries. What a wonderful concept! Deals with two major issues of the modern world 1: what to do with our plastic, 2: a home for the homeless. Even temporary shelter for catastrophe hit regions.
SOOOO many questions. 1) Is there an in-floor heating option? It would be easy to print into the structure. 2) Can you request a higher ceiling in the building? 3) Is the floor bolted to the concrete pad it's installed on? There is SOOO much more that could be done. Being someone the as done 3D printing and certified in AUTOCAD Revit, I could see soooo many customer focus options. Are they hiring?? 🤔
fiberglass is made from glass, glass is made from sand, sand is the most non toxic substance on the planet. fiberglass is actually inert as it reacts with nothing.
Fiberglass fibers are silica, which is extremely inert. Usually the toxicity comes from the resin or binder used in fiberglass construction -- but here they're using the glass fibers extruded in the 3D print with the recycled plastic they're using...
I've seen some other printed homes made from other composites of cement and biomaterials. I think what is interesting is that you can design everything on cad and take the machine to the site and let it do its work. All the plumbing and wiring could be done from the outside in, quite easily by perforating the wall only where it needs to be. Then the whole structure could be covered in an insulating layer with vents and vapor barriers. With no studs, you have cut out a lot of labour and also opened up possibility for a range of insulating and finishing materials. In the end, it could end up looking like a traditional house, even with shingled finish, or synthetic stone veneer to match the natural environment.
How do you repair this type of structure? Such as if a car crashed into it or a tree fell on it? Is it fire resistant? Will any insurance company insure it?
This is a far more effective model for a 3D printed home. Printed concrete homes have to be made on site/require extensive machinery set up+teardown/use non renewable materials/not made in a controlled factory environment. Very cool.
Jarett Gross does a UA-cam channel on 3d printed construction, and I think he talked about these guys, but he never covered what they used to make the buildings. Good job.
Build a giant mobile printer off a recycled construction grade vehicle, with a lightweight enough telescopic robotic arm, a plastic recycling hopper that can be fed recyclable landfill waste. Make it equipped with auto surveying sensory so it can best appropriate building sites in real time. Then you ask it print neighborhoods if tiles, and because its automation, it wont even need to get paid but is only inspired by electrons, because of the automated folding solar panel array.
We have 3D printed, concrete based houses in the Czech Republic (so far only prototypes). I salute the recycling aspect, but I wouldn't expose permanently plastic to Sun, cold at night, rain, wind etc. I have concerns about the microplastic effect as well. Also I can't imagine that this structure can breath (maybe I'm wrong). So you immediately need a solution for that. My other concern is about any fire. I think the direction is good, but I'd prefer indoor versions of any plastic based structures (furniture, dividing walls, storage structures or even tiny blocks like in the video, but with more controlled heat and moist effects). The additional cost to make a box like this usable is very high. And you need at least 2-3 of these to be able to live there. If the video wouldn't suggest the product as a solution for housing problems, I'd feel less weird about it.
You certainly cannot live in it without a lot of work to turn it into a home, though. If you can do the work yourself, and have the time to find reclaimed materials, you may be able to do it cheaply. But if you don't have the talent or the time, and pay someone else to work with new materials, you may be close to the same price. Be sure to factor in permits and inspections of the work.
Won’t rot, won’t rust, bugs cannot eat it, don’t have to worry about water or sun damage, and it doesn’t consume natural resources. I really think this is the future.
You only have to worry about safely escaping any fire that might occur with consideration to the potentially harmful, hazardous, and dangerous fumes that could be the resulting effects of any fire that may occur in this house.
While interesting, this project doesn't appear to be on the same planet as "affordable" at this time. I also have concerns over safety, durability and sustainability, among other things. I do enjoy learning about new methodologies, etc. All the best.
@@chezmoi42 - Did you watch a different video, research, do your due diligence, and add up numbers for a realistic solution or is your garage filled with Gordon Murrays and Nissan GT-R50s? What did I miss?
That really through me. That location was where Agape International Spiritual Center was (north end) before a city water main broke and flooded the whole place. They had to move. It was so sad. I like the idea of the bed on a lift. The bathroom is good. But…. There’s gotta be off-gassing. There isn’t ANY storage to the 3D printed single unit. Ya have to have storage for towels, sheets, TP, etc. AND clothes, shoes, coats… Laundry basket. 180sq’ is very small!
I love these. Good idea and design. However I am worried what sunshine and uv can release from the material, which you will inhale, that may only become apparent in the future. I would need more data on that.
Very cool technology and we definitely need more investment into affordable housing, but I don’t think I would want to live in a plastic house … 💭 even if they claim there are no VOCs … how does it degrade? And what is the useful life?
This is a great concept to improving the method to home construction. I see the value in cost to construct and speed. I’m struggling with the deprecation strategy of these units and it’s plastic composite materials. How does one recycle these homes as someone remodels or upgrades it requiring the demo of an existing structure? I’d feel more comfortable about an investment in a structure like this if I knew the supply chain model and what the house could be recycled into either after wear or where an upgrade is required.
If you check back around 2:15 thru6 discuss that this unit here is basically a prototype and I think the implication is that these units can be built with modularity in mind, with the ability to add/remove components as needed
Ultimately, this could be replicated at under 5 grand, including the cost of the raw materials to make a printer of such scale.Gotta start somewhere though and then scale it towards ending homelessness via affordability built into the solution design.
You will only slightly reduce street homelessness by technology like this because street homelessness is caused by fentanyl addiction by very large margin.
11:09 - paraphrased "people have asked about how safe it is heating up, and this is the same plastic in your waterbottles and in your car, which sees a lot of heat, and its determiend to be safe."
So question is how does it handle the cold as I'm from Canada and it gets to minus 40 below, and how is the load for the roof and again as snow is heavy lol
I think the price is fine for what you got. My only concern and why I would not invest in such thing for a living is that, it kind of brings housing in just something like a shelter… it’s a bit gloomy 🙁. It’s good if you generate income from it, like a vacation rental, but living in it… no way.
Thanks. I know much of that is proof of concept. It's promising. But if I wanted to 3D print prefab housing, I'd want to scale up quite a bit. Why not use many nozzles (like an inkjet printer), & print a wall all in one go? Use metal as a substrate, then pry it off & print the next wall. tavi.
Una idea fantástica, busco desde hace mucho tiempo extructuras habitacionales individuales que se puedan instalar en el interior de espacios mas grandes, de forma que se ahorre en refrigeracion y calefacción y que compartan espacios comunes de convivencia y ocio.
Awesome 🤙😎🤙 I'm curious regarding things like solar electric, gathering/storing drinking and usable water etc if you dropped one of these somewhere where there is no access to city electric, water, etc
They showed that they already offer a solar package. I wouldn't be surprised if they were amenable to incorporating a water recuperation system as well.
I see post and beam on at least one interior shot. Can the exterior not be made like a honeycomb, to create a stronger structure as well as dead air for insulation? (Oh, he says it has dead air and it's R30, that's amazing.) I like the white roof and walls - most of the USA should employ white roofing - not the black exterior front wall. Black is aesthetically pleasing but for practical reasons, no. It will just heat up like crazy.
Omg people need to put money into private transmutation plants... Like the idea of alchemy but within a factory. Like 1/2 is the recycling plant part, and the other half is like making glass bottles into windows and sht like that
Glorified plastic shadowbox huts for nearly 50k. You should get a return discount for how many recycles you turned in (back in the days when you got a nickel for every glass bottle you turned in). Lol
I have questions about the ease of accessing the wall cavity for servicing and modifying electrical, plumbing, insulation, etc. How does the wall cavity breathe, or does it need to? How does this structure withstand varying climates and weather (high winds)? If this is a final product, I have concerns about its ability to accommodate change. I would want fairly easy access to the functions in the wall cavity. Finally, people's tastes and needs change over time, and this build seems too rigid to accommodate change. Not condemning (something I don't understand fully) just sincerely questioning something that seems interesting. Questions need not create a road block, rather foster design challenges.
Curious if any of the ingredients used off gas? You have to be careful with plastic. Plastic is a hormone disruptors that could cause issues down the road from too much exposure. Buts so does mold …
I’d love to see cork flooring/walls/ceiling and any number of ways to reduce any accidental off gassing! (I know most of our homes are filled with off gassing whenever drywall gets damaged). I also love the open ended design. Half “A”s and “D”s would be lovely to combine and create and extend what already exists. Perhaps a small shell could just be a kitchen/bathroom with a living room/bedroom extension built forward and/or back. I am considering getting an ADU for my momma.
Not bad, I like the use of recycled material and that construction is so fast. Additions to homes could cost that much so it's a nice fast add on for existing homes/properties for those kids who want privacy, rentals or when the in-laws stay for a bit. OR if you've been a bad spouse lol. Price will always be a question but what's realistic? We don't know the whole business cost, overhead etc.
They could 3-D print houses out of cow manure, using a construction crew of 2 men and the manufacturer would still charge $430,000+ for the poop house. F the system!
Well, this has human potential and eco value...and people are talking about it here. So let the conversation be fruitful. Not trying isn't an option. Be solution oriented and allow for response and brainstorming.
i'm glad you got video of this. but using plastic in this way is unacceptable. hopefully the manufacturing process they developed can be transferred to a material that should exist, vs this unholy mix of recycled plastic and forever resins that should not be anywhere near a human.
If he could get a contract with local government to supply social housing it would be amazing. If it’s a bust in US, please try the British government. We need it so badly xx
doh not using the 3d printers best attribute = the 3d matrix in the gap for extra strength and insulation holding. 5:27 shower wall added later = a seam that needs sealed and could leak DOH. Design better. wheres the holes in the floor for dust extraction and air to air exchanging heat pump.
My only concern would be fire. Years ago I worked in a prototype plastic house that was supposed to be the way of the future. You couldn't tell it was plastic but it was supposed to be very flammable and had really toxic fumes, hence why it never caught on. Our fire procedure was that at the first sign of fire everyone had to get out immediately, not even trying to put out a bin fire.
I'm sure things have advanced a lot since then but I'd like to know the fire safety in these houses.
First thing I thought...and climate in a plastic house wont' be that good either!
Fire safety is a serious issue. I was hoping they used sand as part of the mix for this reason. Fire safety isn't addressed on the website.
isn't WOOD flammable?
@@shlby69mit's the poisonous fumes given off by the plastic when it burns rather than the mere fact that it burns at all that is the problem.
@@shlby69m Yes, but ignites less essily and burns much more slowly. And it does not give off the toxic fumes plastics do. These fumes cause the deaths that result from smoke inhalation.
Very cool concept and tech, but I'm not sold on the affordable housing angle. Multiply that shed-sized unit a few times to get to the sq ft-age of a bungalow and well, you got a bungalow for the price of a bungalow. This feels more adapted to the glamping or AirBnB industry and perhaps or to add value to your property with a small rental unit, guest house, separate WFH office in their yard, etc. Ultimately, I'm not sure how affordable this is unless you're generating income with it.
Kudos for re-using waste and striving for a zero-waste operation!
Very good, Kristen Dirksen and team. Send this to many and to all seven continents.
That price though. I personally believe California should look at building EarthShips and any homeless person volunteering their labor to build them will not only learn a skill but will be able to live in one.
Love that idea!
Why would people be able to live in one?
Not everyone would in need of housing would be able to do that.
Earth ships are awesome. I’m thinking about building one for my house.
I've been daydreaming of a massive earth ship structure built as sort of a high ceilinged multi story parking garage, but for rv-ers, but with wide balcony views and terrace gardens and underground communal spaces.
Add. the cost of a Lot in some County that Has Codes that Allow this new mini home. Cost to Connect to. Septic and Electric., Cost of Foundation. ----- 80,000. -- 100,000. for these ? What Bank will. grant a mortgage for all this. -- good luck.with it
Kirsten I've been following you since you're documentary release over 12 years ago... your content and research into emerging lifestyle tech and trends never fails to excite!
I would get a wooden shed, and for much less, than to breathe VOC’s 24/7.
Yeah, me too
Are you assuming VOC’s would emit from the materials?
@@m1andonlytwice Yes it’s an assumption, I’m not familiar with the exact composition of the mixture, but an educated guess.
What is voc?!.
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@@iTeerRexfiberglass?!.
There is a huge problem with ppl ingesting microplasctics from daily use of plastic bottles so I dont think living inside a plastic bottle is a good move. Hard pass for me.
Side note: these tiny homes are ridiculously overpriced. I cant belive this dude is selling plastic closets for 50k each 😂.
Plastic is your friend, trash is not. He's overcharging for trash (relabeled "recycled").
I’m not sure if y’all can imagine how much the cost was to invent this ability to recycle plastics and turn them into homes. Let’s wait and see if he can get the price of the equipment down and hopefully the price of the home will go down as well.
When you leave your plastic drinking water bottle in the heat toxic chemicals leach into the water. Imagine living in this on a really hot day
@@cynot71 Wow, no dear one, plastic is not healthy.
Price is the finished product including plumbing, electricity, kitchen, bed and bath. What does a 900 sq ft house sell for in LA today? Zillow says a 1300 sq ft house in Los Angeles is worth $1.3 million, and an empty quarter acre lot is $475K. THat means 1300 sf house (built in 1923) is $825K.
I think this is an amazing beginning. Anytime new ideas are introduced, there are always nay sayers who tear an idea down without supplying any solutions themselves. Everything is imperfect in the beginning. This will be continually improving. I think this a is a positive beginning to use the mountains of plastics we have 🤩
You're right, they are very early innovators with this. We were talking with them about mining the Great Pacific Garbage Patch so yes, it will take a long time to exhaust their supply chains.
@@kirstendirksen this is awesome reminds me alot of 🌎 🛳 sz
This is the future 🏡
You still have to get the permits from the County, have the utilities installed, hookup plumbing....so the cost overall it's possible could skyrocket to $100K.
Municipal governments and their hunger for taxes and power are a major contributor to the housing crisis. There was a time, admittedly long ago, when you could build a house without being hindered by expensive permits and development fees. to say nothing of the excessive delays in getting such permits. Governments are supposed to serve us, but increasingly they appear to be our enemy and are hostile to our needs and wants.
It depends on where you live. In places more rural there is no impact assessment and no building codes with permits being basic and on the inexpensive side. Flush toilets may become obsolete as it costs so much money to use gallons of potable water and then infrastructure to take it to be processed and cleaned before discharging into some body of water. Incinerating or composting toilets make more sense especially in areas where water is scarce. Plus poop and vegetable waste can be used to create methane that can be used to create electricity for heating or public transportation.
How well does this house cancel out noise? If a noise sensitive person were to live in such house would they hear everything from outside or not? Are windows also made from recycled material? How well do they stop noise? I love how beautiful the shapes are ♥ However the house is function first aesthetics second. At least in theory :)
This is the next best frontier of reusing materials and and even sourcing from landfills, oceans cleanup and and even garbage collection in materials science. From Apple Watch bands to modular homes. Making it affordable and off grid and hurricane proof. I’m loving it.
These pods could really come into the own to provide temporary housing for people displaced by disaster events (i.e. bushfire, floods, earthquake etc).
How would these hold up in a desert environment, say upper desert Arizona, that can have four seasons? It's mentioned they're made of recycled plastic and other ingredients. Are some of the other ingredients fire retardants? Wondering how it handles that, and the heat of the Sun.
wondering about toxic off gassing, flammability, if the plastic they use is bpa free?
I'm glad it's out of plastic, because there is so much
This could be a great way to help with the homeless situation in a lot of countries. What a wonderful concept! Deals with two major issues of the modern world 1: what to do with our plastic, 2: a home for the homeless. Even temporary shelter for catastrophe hit regions.
What a great idea! I wish I had more thumbs to point up!
SOOOO many questions.
1) Is there an in-floor heating option? It would be easy to print into the structure.
2) Can you request a higher ceiling in the building?
3) Is the floor bolted to the concrete pad it's installed on?
There is SOOO much more that could be done. Being someone the as done 3D printing and certified in AUTOCAD Revit, I could see soooo many customer focus options.
Are they hiring?? 🤔
You could turn it on its side to get a higher ceiling
It looks like atmospheric soiling would be an ongoing issue for an owner who wanted to present that clean looking white textured exterior
Couldn’t it be painted?
So cool but is fiberglass not toxic? and is it safe to live inside plastic What about the tostic frum?
fiberglass is made from glass, glass is made from sand, sand is the most non toxic substance on the planet. fiberglass is actually inert as it reacts with nothing.
Fiberglass fibers are silica, which is extremely inert. Usually the toxicity comes from the resin or binder used in fiberglass construction -- but here they're using the glass fibers extruded in the 3D print with the recycled plastic they're using...
I've seen some other printed homes made from other composites of cement and biomaterials. I think what is interesting is that you can design everything on cad and take the machine to the site and let it do its work. All the plumbing and wiring could be done from the outside in, quite easily by perforating the wall only where it needs to be. Then the whole structure could be covered in an insulating layer with vents and vapor barriers. With no studs, you have cut out a lot of labour and also opened up possibility for a range of insulating and finishing materials. In the end, it could end up looking like a traditional house, even with shingled finish, or synthetic stone veneer to match the natural environment.
How do you repair this type of structure? Such as if a car crashed into it or a tree fell on it? Is it fire resistant? Will any insurance company insure it?
This is a far more effective model for a 3D printed home. Printed concrete homes have to be made on site/require extensive machinery set up+teardown/use non renewable materials/not made in a controlled factory environment. Very cool.
That is really interesting. I would be concerned about how it handles snow load.
Jarett Gross does a UA-cam channel on 3d printed construction, and I think he talked about these guys, but he never covered what they used to make the buildings. Good job.
Build a giant mobile printer off a recycled construction grade vehicle, with a lightweight enough telescopic robotic arm, a plastic recycling hopper that can be fed recyclable landfill waste.
Make it equipped with auto surveying sensory so it can best appropriate building sites in real time.
Then you ask it print neighborhoods if tiles, and because its automation, it wont even need to get paid but is only inspired by electrons, because of the automated folding solar panel array.
We have 3D printed, concrete based houses in the Czech Republic (so far only prototypes). I salute the recycling aspect, but I wouldn't expose permanently plastic to Sun, cold at night, rain, wind etc. I have concerns about the microplastic effect as well. Also I can't imagine that this structure can breath (maybe I'm wrong). So you immediately need a solution for that. My other concern is about any fire.
I think the direction is good, but I'd prefer indoor versions of any plastic based structures (furniture, dividing walls, storage structures or even tiny blocks like in the video, but with more controlled heat and moist effects).
The additional cost to make a box like this usable is very high. And you need at least 2-3 of these to be able to live there. If the video wouldn't suggest the product as a solution for housing problems, I'd feel less weird about it.
You can get a shipping container for $2500 that will last forever and is three times as big! Only affordable in the California dreams.
You certainly cannot live in it without a lot of work to turn it into a home, though. If you can do the work yourself, and have the time to find reclaimed materials, you may be able to do it cheaply. But if you don't have the talent or the time, and pay someone else to work with new materials, you may be close to the same price. Be sure to factor in permits and inspections of the work.
Is there any off gasing from the plastic?
Won’t rot, won’t rust, bugs cannot eat it, don’t have to worry about water or sun damage, and it doesn’t consume natural resources. I really think this is the future.
You only have to worry about safely escaping any fire that might occur with consideration to the potentially harmful, hazardous, and dangerous fumes that could be the resulting effects of any fire that may occur in this house.
While interesting, this project doesn't appear to be on the same planet as "affordable" at this time. I also have concerns over safety, durability and sustainability, among other things. I do enjoy learning about new methodologies, etc. All the best.
A house that costs less than a car isn't "affordable" to you?
Ditto
Comparing apples to oranges, one would have to figure in the cost of the land to keep that car on, delivery and setup fees...@@chezmoi42
@@chezmoi42 - Did you watch a different video, research, do your due diligence, and add up numbers for a realistic solution or is your garage filled with Gordon Murrays and Nissan GT-R50s? What did I miss?
Are they planning to have a company in Canada? Brilliant concept 😊
That really through me. That location was where Agape International Spiritual Center was (north end) before a city water main broke and flooded the whole place. They had to move. It was so sad.
I like the idea of the bed on a lift.
The bathroom is good.
But….
There’s gotta be off-gassing.
There isn’t ANY storage to the 3D printed single unit.
Ya have to have storage for towels, sheets, TP, etc. AND clothes, shoes, coats…
Laundry basket.
180sq’ is very small!
Five years from now - when pricing comes down - could see variations of these for emergency shelter buildings.
Are these only available in America or World wide and is fire safety issues considered ?
What about water gutters off of the roof to catch rain water?
How does Azure deal with the creep property of plastic which is accelerated when exposed to sunlight?
Love this concept but I would be concerned about off-gassing.
I love these. Good idea and design. However I am worried what sunshine and uv can release from the material, which you will inhale, that may only become apparent in the future. I would need more data on that.
Very cool technology and we definitely need more investment into affordable housing, but I don’t think I would want to live in a plastic house … 💭 even if they claim there are no VOCs … how does it degrade? And what is the useful life?
Interesting project. Long-term durability and design flexibility will be Interesting to see.
Lots of possibilities here - maybe other (natural) materials "printed" like this? I'm thinking grasses like bamboo. Local soil? Processed manure? 🤔
This is a great concept to improving the method to home construction. I see the value in cost to construct and speed. I’m struggling with the deprecation strategy of these units and it’s plastic composite materials. How does one recycle these homes as someone remodels or upgrades it requiring the demo of an existing structure? I’d feel more comfortable about an investment in a structure like this if I knew the supply chain model and what the house could be recycled into either after wear or where an upgrade is required.
If you check back around 2:15 thru6 discuss that this unit here is basically a prototype and I think the implication is that these units can be built with modularity in mind, with the ability to add/remove components as needed
Conventionally built homes aren’t recycled at all. If they’re remodeled, they create huge dumpsters full of waste.
Ultimately, this could be replicated at under 5 grand, including the cost of the raw materials to make a printer of such scale.Gotta start somewhere though and then scale it towards ending homelessness via affordability built into the solution design.
I agree, as $50K is not really that affordable to low income people!
even if it would be for free the homeless person still wont afford the plot of land needed for it...
If true, that's a business.
You will only slightly reduce street homelessness by technology like this because street homelessness is caused by fentanyl addiction by very large margin.
@@sarbantz Vote to make the fent manufacturer billionaires pay for it.
Do you have to put in a septic tank system to handle the disposal of liquids? Great video, thanks.
How do the houses withstand earthquakes and hurricanes?
They should make the glass very easy to remove so it can be mobile. Many people don’t want to settle in one spot for the rest of their life.
Plastic degrades when exposed to the elements, wouldn't these structures eventually cause micro plastics to reach groundwater?
11:09 - paraphrased "people have asked about how safe it is heating up, and this is the same plastic in your waterbottles and in your car, which sees a lot of heat, and its determiend to be safe."
What about kitchen bathrooms?
So question is how does it handle the cold as I'm from Canada and it gets to minus 40 below, and how is the load for the roof and again as snow is heavy lol
50K? Looks like 10K.
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@@Champion-jb6ujplastic shed from Home Depot.
How does it react with hurricane, earthquakes, and fire?
Luxury modernist shed.
What about city and/county building codes ?
I think the price is fine for what you got. My only concern and why I would not invest in such thing for a living is that, it kind of brings housing in just something like a shelter… it’s a bit gloomy 🙁. It’s good if you generate income from it, like a vacation rental, but living in it… no way.
Thanks. I know much of that is proof of concept. It's promising. But if I wanted to 3D print prefab housing, I'd want to scale up quite a bit. Why not use many nozzles (like an inkjet printer), & print a wall all in one go? Use metal as a substrate, then pry it off & print the next wall. tavi.
Dang $44k! The margins on these things must be insane
How safe is this home? Could it cause any health risks living in this home from chemicals, etc.?
Una idea fantástica, busco desde hace mucho tiempo extructuras habitacionales individuales que se puedan instalar en el interior de espacios mas grandes, de forma que se ahorre en refrigeracion y calefacción y que compartan espacios comunes de convivencia y ocio.
I wonder if they could be considered for earth-contact housing. I was hoping to hear them mention something like that. : /
Awesome 🤙😎🤙 I'm curious regarding things like solar electric, gathering/storing drinking and usable water etc if you dropped one of these somewhere where there is no access to city electric, water, etc
They showed that they already offer a solar package. I wouldn't be surprised if they were amenable to incorporating a water recuperation system as well.
Is it bullet proof?
Can you recycle the house again?
Where are the electrical outlets?
$50k?
You can get more for your money with other options.
they're too expensive everytime somebody says they're solving affordable housing i remember that they're rich already so they think 200k is cheap
Are these the ones they used during the LVI Super Bowl Half Time Show?
🙋♂️ THANKS KIRSTEN…FOR SHARING THIS BEAUTIFUL 🤩 IDEA 💡 FROM WASTE 😎💚💚💚
I see post and beam on at least one interior shot. Can the exterior not be made like a honeycomb, to create a stronger structure as well as dead air for insulation? (Oh, he says it has dead air and it's R30, that's amazing.) I like the white roof and walls - most of the USA should employ white roofing - not the black exterior front wall. Black is aesthetically pleasing but for practical reasons, no. It will just heat up like crazy.
Is it strong enough to be buried as an earth home?
A lot of white plastics yellow and become brittle in the sun. Wouldn't that happen to this as well?
They have a UV coating on it which needs to be reapplied every 15 years.
Omg people need to put money into private transmutation plants... Like the idea of alchemy but within a factory. Like 1/2 is the recycling plant part, and the other half is like making glass bottles into windows and sht like that
That's absurd money for that
Hey Kirsten I love this printed home except with all the channels, the exterior it would get dirty often !
That was my concern too. It would have to be power washed maybe, and able to withstand that.
Yeah that'd be a problem for me too.
@@sidilicious11 True 👍
Glorified plastic shadowbox huts for nearly 50k. You should get a return discount for how many recycles you turned in (back in the days when you got a nickel for every glass bottle you turned in). Lol
How much for the studio,?
What about offgassing in heat?
That's what I look for in a house...the way the outside feels when I touch it.
What is the r value?
Would it work in Canadian weather?
I have questions about the ease of accessing the wall cavity for servicing and modifying electrical, plumbing, insulation, etc. How does the wall cavity breathe, or does it need to? How does this structure withstand varying climates and weather (high winds)? If this is a final product, I have concerns about its ability to accommodate change. I would want fairly easy access to the functions in the wall cavity. Finally, people's tastes and needs change over time, and this build seems too rigid to accommodate change. Not condemning (something I don't understand fully) just sincerely questioning something that seems interesting. Questions need not create a road block, rather foster design challenges.
Curious if any of the ingredients used off gas? You have to be careful with plastic. Plastic is a hormone disruptors that could cause issues down the road from too much exposure. Buts so does mold …
I’d love to see cork flooring/walls/ceiling and any number of ways to reduce any accidental off gassing! (I know most of our homes are filled with off gassing whenever drywall gets damaged). I also love the open ended design. Half “A”s and “D”s would be lovely to combine and create and extend what already exists.
Perhaps a small shell could just be a kitchen/bathroom with a living room/bedroom extension built forward and/or back.
I am considering getting an ADU for my momma.
Not bad, I like the use of recycled material and that construction is so fast. Additions to homes could cost that much so it's a nice fast add on for existing homes/properties for those kids who want privacy, rentals or when the in-laws stay for a bit. OR if you've been a bad spouse lol. Price will always be a question but what's realistic? We don't know the whole business cost, overhead etc.
Model 'D': Doghouse for bad spouse?
They could 3-D print houses out of cow manure, using a construction crew of 2 men and the manufacturer would still charge $430,000+ for the poop house. F the system!
This is really cool.
Don’t see how these are affordable. One hundred eighty sq ft is $43,900 & 360 sq ft $85,900 not including the land.
What kind of codes it can meet?
Well, this has human potential and eco value...and people are talking about it here. So let the conversation be fruitful. Not trying isn't an option. Be solution oriented and allow for response and brainstorming.
i'm glad you got video of this. but using plastic in this way is unacceptable. hopefully the manufacturing process they developed can be transferred to a material that should exist, vs this unholy mix of recycled plastic and forever resins that should not be anywhere near a human.
i am interested in helping scale this innovation up to build entire communities
$44,000.00 USD for a base level chicken coup? Hmmm.
Do a video on Prince Concepts PS1200, FORT WORTH, TX.
If he could get a contract with local government to supply social housing it would be amazing. If it’s a bust in
US, please try the British government. We need it so badly xx
What about the AC heater.
people can get cancer because of constant exposure to plasics.
is there a way of protection from inhaling microplastics ?
doh not using the 3d printers best attribute = the 3d matrix in the gap for extra strength and insulation holding. 5:27 shower wall added later = a seam that needs sealed and could leak DOH. Design better. wheres the holes in the floor for dust extraction and air to air exchanging heat pump.
It's an interesting office space, but calling it a home is a far cry without bed and bath space