Technology

Print a house in less than a day.

One of the most promising fields of near-future technologies is that of 3D printing. We talked about it in this recent article with reference to food, and now we have the opportunity to admire 3D printers one and a half meters long, capable of building a 700 square meter house in 20 hours. The special construction process called CAD/CAM includes computer assistance for both the design and manufacturing parts. Entire housing units ... Read all

Gianluca Riccio

November 7, 2013

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One of the most promising fields of the near future technologies is that of 3D printing.

We talked in this recent article with reference to food, and now we have the opportunity to admire 3D printers one and a half meters long, capable of pulling out a 700 square meter house in 20 hours.

The special construction process called CAD/CAM includes computer assistance for both the design and manufacturing parts. Entire housing units will be designed and sent to print as we do today for a written document, and the drawings will become physical objects almost automatically.

The size of the printers, constantly increasing, allows to build walls by depositing the cement layer by layer.

Here is a video showing how the machine works.

Gianluca Riccio, creative director of Melancia adv, copywriter and journalist. He is part of the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H+. Since 2006 he has directed Futuroprossimo.it, the Italian Futurology resource. He is a partner of Forwardto-Studies and skills for future scenarios.

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