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First 3D Printed Houses For Rent Will Be Built In the Netherlands This Year (qz.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the home-sweet-home dept.

Since there aren't enough construction workers in the country to keep up with housing demands, the city of Eindhoven in The Netherlands is turning to robots for help. The city will soon boast the world's first commercially-developed 3D-printed homes, a endeavor known as Project Milestone. The project is being handled by Dutch construction company Van Wijnen and researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology. Quartz reports: Construction on the first home begins this year and five houses will be on the rental market by 2019, project organizers say. Within a week of releasing images of the new homes, 20 families expressed interest in dwelling in these postmodern pods, according to the project website. the project website. "The first aim of the project is to build five great houses that are comfortable to live in and will have happy occupants," developers say. Beyond that, they hope to promote 3D concrete printing science and technology so that printed housing "will soon be a reality that is widely adopted."

The "printer" in this case is a big robotic arm that will shape cement of a light, whipped-cream consistency, based on an architect's design. The cement is layered for strength. The project developers say that the consistency of this concrete and the precision of the printer will make it possible to mix and use only as much cement as is needed, which makes it environmentally-friendly and less expensive than classic construction methods. The printer and unique cement will also allow them to create unusual forms that challenge conventional notions of home design.

32 comments

  1. Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/06/08/1421214/netherlands-will-welcome-its-first-community-of-3d-printed-homes

  2. Yes, you already told us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dupe

  3. Do msmash and BeauHD even talk to each other? by sconeu · · Score: 1

    n/t

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    1. Re:Do msmash and BeauHD even talk to each other? by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

      No, the corpus callosum has been severed.

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    2. Re:Do msmash and BeauHD even talk to each other? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Cut them a break. There were six hours in between.

    3. Re:Do msmash and BeauHD even talk to each other? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh come on. I was so happy to see a dupe. It's really starting to feel like the /. of old. Not even of the fucking front page and a dupe. Love it!!

  4. We need to build stuff like that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Monolithic concrete houses made with a 3D printer would be able to withstand a tornado!

  5. Reinforcement? by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 1

    How are these walls reinforced? Typically you need rebar in a concrete structure to prevent it to becoming ruble - especially in area that has any seismic activity.

    1. Re:Reinforcement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was wondering that as well. they could be using fiber reinforced concrete where ti is mixed in. The other article talked of making hollow shapes and saving concrete which made me wonder how large the aggregate in it is. This 'concrete' may be more akin to mortar without large aggregate but with large fiber chunks for some form of reinforcement.

    2. Re:Reinforcement? by TheNetworkMonkey · · Score: 1

      How are these walls reinforced? Typically you need rebar in a concrete structure to prevent it to becoming ruble - especially in area that has any seismic activity.

      This, 100%. From the images, it looks like they are building 0.5-1m thick walls with internal structure that emulate the structure of cinder blocks (maybe 30% infill). They are also embedding some thin wire as they lay the concrete, but I don't see how that's going to do much, especially since it's not affixed in any way to the other layers. For a three story house, as shown in their renderings, that seems somewhat suspect. Maybe the Netherlands have loose building codes.

    3. Re:Reinforcement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      These houses are absolutely tiny, so that's probably why they don't need reinforcement.
      But even colossal concrete structures don't need reinforcement as long as they're designed right. The Romans built a lot with concrete and managed to build enormous monuments without ever using rebar.
      The downside is of course that the required arches and such enlarge the footprint of the building and put restrictions on the internal layout. And you won't be building skyscrapers that way either. But man, I do like arches way more than boxes.

  6. I'm still waiting... by sootman · · Score: 1

    ... for the first 3D-printed Slashdot editor.

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    1. Re:I'm still waiting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We got two of them. With the manufacturing process they can produce almost identical content.

  7. On the same page, now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Come on, slashdot, duplicates on the very same page?...

  8. Tombs of the Ancient Kings by BarryHaworth · · Score: 1

    Odd looking design. They remind me of the tombs of the ancient kings in the Narnia stories.

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    1. Re:Tombs of the Ancient Kings by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 1

      Odd looking design. They remind me of the tombs of the ancient kings in the Narnia stories.

      I dunno. When I look at them . . . I think they look like those Easter Island Heads:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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    2. Re: Tombs of the Ancient Kings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They look more like the Narnia thing...

    3. Re:Tombs of the Ancient Kings by BarryHaworth · · Score: 1

      Maybe they'll program them in as lawn ornaments.

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    4. Re:Tombs of the Ancient Kings by BarryHaworth · · Score: 1

      Odd looking design. They remind me of the tombs of the ancient kings in the Narnia stories.

      Quoting from the book (" The Horse and His Boy ")

      "He saw, about five minutes’ walk away on his left, what must certainly be the Tombs, just as Bree had described them; great masses of mouldering stone shaped like gigantic beehives, but a little narrower. They looked very black and grim, for the sun was now setting right behind them.

      ...

      There was something very uncomfortable about those great, silent shapes of stone.

      ...

      The moon was shining brightly. The Tombs—far bigger and nearer than he had thought they would be—looked gray in the moonlight. In fact, they looked horribly like huge people, draped in gray robes that covered their heads and faces. They were not at all nice things to have near you when spending a night alone in a strange place. "

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  9. There's only two things I hate in this world. by niff · · Score: 1

    People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

  10. Wow . . . not by reboot246 · · Score: 1

    3-D printed tiny homes. They sure look futuristic, but I wouldn't buy one.

  11. SITUS BANDARQ ONLINE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://situsjudi.id/game-sakong/

  12. Good lord, not even 12 hours old ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Netherlands Will Welcome Its First Community of 3D-Printed Homes
    Posted by msmash on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:40AM from the how-about-that dept.

    Dupe! Come on guys, at least try. Do you at least read the fucking front page?

    Oh my god, it's a meme, we're all gonna get arrested.

  13. Construction is not the main cost. by Going_Digital · · Score: 1

    Seems like a pointless exercise, the biggest cost in buying a home is the land price. Construction costs are small in comparison and when spending money on a long term investment like a house you would probably want to pay a little extra to have something with somewhat higher quality standards than something that looks like it has been made from PlayDoh.

    1. Re:Construction is not the main cost. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the biggest cost in buying a home is the land price.

      Your tiny little mind cannot imagine the economic circumstances beyond your own back yard.

      For example land is very cheap in Hawaii, construction is very expensive.

      Don't worry, you won't ever leave your neighborhood.

  14. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Anything that pushes the lowlife working class out of existence can only be a good thing. We need to wipe out the deplorables if we want to usher in a new age of progressivism, enlightenment and beauty. All of this cannot exist in a world where workers exist.

  15. Futuristic?? by drewsup · · Score: 1

    they look more like Flinstones houses!
    Im all for future building techniques, but seeings how there are no inside pics, im assuming the inside is dismal, and small, and grey....

    1. Re: Futuristic?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stand here in the middle...we'll build around you...we call it a cocoon.

  16. Construction is not the main cost-prefab. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pre-fab homes have been built in factories for years with as good if not better quality. Laborer cost should be better as well.

  17. Bs article by SuperDre · · Score: 1

    First bs, the netherlands has more than enough construction workers. second bs, it's by far not the first 3D printed housing in the world. Third bs, the University of Eindhoven is far from being the leader in 3D printing...

  18. In France too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't forget the Nantes' 3D printed house in France.

    https://3dprint.com/207936/3d-printed-yhnova-house-done/