Dutch firm building a house with a giant 3D printer Art Villasanta Wednesday, March 19 2014
urrently rising layer by layer in Amsterdam is the world's first house to be built by 3D printing technology.
Dutch architectural firm Dus Architects commissioned the 20-foot tall 3D printer given the name, "Kamermaker," or room builder. The project to build the 3D house is simply called the "3D Print Canal House." Dus had Kamermaker built when it decided upsize the scale-model rooms it was already 3D-printing and turn them into the real thing.
What Kamermaker does is to build a series of rooms that can be snapped together to form an entire house, Lego-brick style. So far, the printer has produced a corner of the house with a partial staircase attached. The piece weighs some 400 pounds.
Each building block takes about a week to print. It has a honeycombed internal structure that will be filled with a foam that reaches a concrete-like hardness. The entire demonstration house in Amsterdam is expected to be completed in about three years. ..............................................
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