“But a pair of companies working on solving that believes their model of quickly 3D-printing a one-story house could not only provide merely a roof over the head, but a genuinely great place to live.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43411581

Interesting but I don’t think that dog is going to hunt for a variety of reasons.
But it does emphasis the fact that for 3D printing all you need is a frame on tracks and you can scale it up to what you want.

Peak Warming Man said:

“But a pair of companies working on solving that believes their model of quickly 3D-printing a one-story house could not only provide merely a roof over the head, but a genuinely great place to live.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43411581

Interesting but I don’t think that dog is going to hunt for a variety of reasons.
But it does emphasis the fact that for 3D printing all you need is a frame on tracks and you can scale it up to what you want.

There are quite a few places looking at 3D printing of concrete, but you may well be right about its practicality for houses.

3D printing for tunnels and the like has been used for many decades in the form of “shotcrete” of course.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

“But a pair of companies working on solving that believes their model of quickly 3D-printing a one-story house could not only provide merely a roof over the head, but a genuinely great place to live.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43411581

Interesting but I don’t think that dog is going to hunt for a variety of reasons.
But it does emphasis the fact that for 3D printing all you need is a frame on tracks and you can scale it up to what you want.

There are quite a few places looking at 3D printing of concrete, but you may well be right about its practicality for houses.

3D printing for tunnels and the like has been used for many decades in the form of “shotcrete” of course.

Of course! Why didn’t I think of that. It’s the same process.

Why not just mass produce houses?

I stayed in a hotel in Japan where the entire bathroom (without plumbing and mirrors) was cast in a single piece of plastic. That’s the way to do it.

But back to the possibilities of 3-D printing in concrete, I silently scream every time I see reinforcing bars slowly added prior to pouring, one bar at a time and tied in place. A slower construction method could not be imagined.

Other construction processes such as 20 or more bolts at a single steel structure intersection, trusses painfully assembled from more than a hundred small pieces, and single-use formwork sawn from timber, also have me shaking my head. Ditto assembling electrical wiring for vehicles one wire at a time.

There has to be a better way.

I’d like to 3D print one of these.

Hippie Houses

Tau.Neutrino said:

I’d like to 3D print one of these.

Hippie Houses

Yes!

You could even print the spiral staircase.