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Located alongside the scenic San Gabriel River in the hills of Georgetown, TX, the Wolf Ranch community of 3D-printed homes by ICON in collaboration with Lennar is minutes from everything. This modern community blends the Texas Hill Country with access to the entire Austin metro area.
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01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08Built by ICON and Lennar, one of the nation’s leading homebuilders, and codesigned by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, the innovative community of one hundred 3D-printed homes features eight floorplans, 24 elevations and will be powered by the sun with rooftop solar panels.
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ICON’s 3D-printed, high-performance homes feature elevated architectural and energy-efficient designs that highlight the benefits of resiliency and sustainability with the digital possibilities of additive construction.
Delivered at speed and at scale using a fleet of ICON’s Vulcan robotic construction systems, software and advanced materials, each home’s full wall system including interior and exterior walls are produced with less waste and with more design freedom.
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Built by ICON and Lennar, one of the nation’s leading homebuilders, and co-designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, the innovative community of one hundred 3D-printed homes feature eight floorplans, 24 elevations, and will be powered by the sun with rooftop solar panels.
03 Bedrooms | 02 Baths | 1,574 Sq Ft
This stylish single-story home located in the incredible community of Wolf Ranch has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and boasts more than 1,500 square feet of living space, a rear patio and an open floor plan for entertaining. The primary suite sits off the living area, and includes a beautiful walk-in closet, a double vanity, a standalone tub and shower.
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03 Bedrooms | 02 Baths | 1,781 Sq Ft
The perfect home for entertaining, Genesis 02 has an open floor plan that allows you to see your guests or family across the kitchen, living and dining spaces.
This spacious 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom single-story home features a large walk-in closet in the primary suite, as well as a double vanity, a standalone tub and shower.
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03 Bedrooms | 02 Baths | 2,014 Sq Ft
A private primary bedroom retreat anchors this home and provides a sanctuary with its own patio. The focal point of the home is the open kitchen, which connects to both the living and dining spaces—a host’s dream. The 3-bedroom, 2-bath home offers ample closet space, large windows and a spacious kitchen island.
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03 Bedrooms | 02 Baths | 1,977 Sq Ft
Genesis 04 is a 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with nearly 2,000 square feet of living space, in addition to a 385-square-foot outdoor patio.
Large sliding doors off the living room allow you to bring the outdoors in. The primary bedroom offers a large walk-in closet.
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04 Bedrooms | 02 Baths | 1,993 Sq Ft
This 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom home is perfect for those looking for larger space. It boasts more than 2,000 square feet of living space and flex spaces that could be used for a home office—or even two. The primary suite sits towards the rear of the house, offering privacy for its occupants. The gorgeous en-suite bathroom features a large walk-in closet.
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03 Bedrooms | 02 Baths | 2,010 Sq Ft
Genesis 06 has an open-concept living room attached to a spacious patio, allowing for both indoor and outdoor entertaining.
Large glass sliding doors allow the space to fill with natural light or close out the outside world. The home offers 2,000+ square feet of living space with an open-concept kitchen.
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04 Bedrooms | 03 Baths | 2,031 Sq Ft
Genesis 07 is a 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath with ample living space for homeowners. The open kitchen sits between living and dining spaces, allowing for seamless transitions and entertaining.
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04 Bedrooms | 03 Baths | 2,112 Sq Ft
A 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom home, The Genesis 08, offers over 2,000 square feet of living space.
The front door allows for side entry and greater privacy in the home. Upon entering the foyer, there is a separation between living and dwelling spaces. This home offers a large, open kitchen and dining space with an adjacent living room and access to the outdoors.
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First Milestone 3D printed house commissioned in the Netherlands. It is no coincidence that the house looks like a giant boulder - so, according to the builders, the building will fit better into the surrounding landscape, but inside it is quite comfortable.
The Milestone project, launched in 2018, involves the construction of a pilot village using construction 3D printing technologies. Engineers from the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU / e) are involved in the design of additive systems and the development of technologies, but a number of partners are involved in the project: building materials manufacturer Weber Beamix, real estate development company Vesteda, construction company Van Wijnen, engineering consulting company Witteveen + Bos and municipal authorities Eindhoven.
Leading the parade is Theo Salet, a professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology and a former employee of Witteveen+Bos, who has no particular love for typical buildings and modular structures.
“In this way we will reach mass production, and after some time the streets will be littered with identical houses. It will look extremely monotonous. Nobody wants it, and there is no need for it. It is necessary to digitalize the entire process - from design to construction. The robots don't care what form needs to be printed, so industrial-level customization can be implemented,” explains Prof. Salet.
The first and so far the only one of the built houses offers 94 meters of living space with a spacious living room and two bedrooms, thermal insulation and connection to the heating network. The house was not printed on site, instead, twenty-four blocks were made in the workshop, after which the ready-made, “ripened” concrete blocks were delivered to the construction site by trucks and assembled on the foundation.
Apparently, the blocks are made at an experimental additive factory funded by the construction holding Royal BAM Group. This business opened in 2019year and uses adapted multi-axis robotic arms.
As we have already mentioned, for aesthetic reasons, the structure should resemble a giant boulder in shape, although there is a suspicion that a fan of cartoons about the Flintstone family simply wormed its way into the ranks of architects. The sloping walls of the blocks caused a lot of inconvenience during 3D printing and, judging by the early renders and photos of the finished building, the slope was even reduced.
The design of the five buildings envisaged by the project will gradually become more complex, taking into account the accumulated experience, up to the construction of three-story houses. The first building has already acquired tenants - Harry Dekkers and Elisa Lutz, a couple of pensioners from Amsterdam, received the keys to the 3D printed tower.
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3D printing has been used in construction for several years now. In this article, you will learn about the first real houses printed on 3D printers.
3D printing of houses is still quite new to the layman. While construction 3D printing technologies have been developed for many years, only a few "real" projects have already seen the light of day. We are still far from technology taking over conventional construction methods. But with each new project, she is getting closer to becoming mainstream.
There are many benefits to 3D printing. For example, the cost of a 3D printed house can be much lower. And it will take much less time to build.
In order to draw a line under what has already been achieved in this area and show some interesting projects, we have devoted an article to the "first" and the best. These projects will always remain milestones in the construction 3D printing industry as they set the stage for future advances in the field.
Germany's first 3D printed house
Germany is a country often associated with cutting-edge engineering, so let's start our list with Germany's first ever 3D printed house.
The house itself is located in Beckum, a city that is partly located in North Rhine-Westphalia, next to Holland and Belgium. This is the first 3D printed house to be fully certified to official building codes. This project will give way to many other 3D printed construction projects in Germany as well as the rest of Europe.
The project is the result of a collaboration between German construction company Peri and Danish construction 3D printing firm COBOD. Peri is a large corporation that operates not only in Germany, but throughout the EU. Its portfolio includes many products, including scaffolding and formwork solutions that every construction site needs.
Peri followed the construction 3D printing segment for many years before acquiring a stake in COBOD in 2018. Now they are pushing the technology together and further.
The construction of the house in Beckum began two years after the acquisition of the share.
For 3D printing at home, a BOD2 modular 3D printer from COBOD was used. The printing itself took just over 100 hours.
• Built: (started) September 17, 2020
• Commissioned: summer 2021
• Where: Beckum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• By: Peri, COBOD
First occupied 3D printed home in the US
Several homes have been printed in the US, but this home is the first officially occupied home, according to CNN. Its creators: the construction company Alquist and the humanitarian organization Habitat for Humanity Peninsula.
From a distance, you might think that this is an ordinary house. However, when approaching it, the layered structure of the concrete walls becomes noticeable. After all, 3D printing creates an object in layers.
Surprisingly, the 111.5 square meter concrete structure of the house (was printed in about 12 hours, significantly faster than traditional construction methods would allow.
The house was reportedly bought by April Springfield, who lives there with her son and dog She bought the house through Habitat for Humanity's housing program, and given that the nonprofit's goal is to help solve the global housing crisis, it makes sense to use 3D printing to create affordable homes that will make many people's dreams of home ownership come true.0003
• Built: 2021
• Commissioned: December 22, 2021
• Where: Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
• By: Alquist 3D, Habitat for Humanity Peninsula, Greater Williamsburg
The first five-story 3D printed house
This project, made by the Chinese company WinSun, is a real record holder. It is a 3D printed five-story residential building with a height of 10 meters - the tallest 3D printed building so far.
The house is located in Suzhou Industrial Park in Jiangsu province in eastern China. It stands next to a mansion that was also built by WinSun using a concrete 3D printer.
Looking at WinSun designs, you can't help but notice that they don't look like they've been 3D printed. Usually 3D printed structures are gray in color, the layer lines are clearly visible. But WinSun adds color and makes walls smoother. Nowhere is it stated how the company achieves the smoothness of the walls, but we assume that the workers smooth them by hand. WinSun projects are not like the ones we're used to.
• Built: Winter 2014
• Commissioned: Not specified
• Where: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
• By: WinSun
First 3D printed biodegradable house
Can you guess that there is rice in the walls of this house?
Most 3D printed buildings are made from concrete mix. But this project is different from the rest. With the aim of creating housing solutions with little to no environmental impact, Italian company WASP 3D printed Gay's house using soil and agricultural waste.
WASP developed the sustainable blend in collaboration with Ricehouse, a company that specializes in using natural and agricultural materials such as clay and rice in construction.
The house is named Gaia in honor of the ancient Greek goddess of the earth. In fact, 25% of the mixture contains local soil, 10% hydraulic lime, 25% rice husks and 40% crushed rice straw (a by-product of rice production at harvest).
An innovative solution not only in terms of material, but also in the design of the walls themselves. The specific corrugated structure was used to provide ventilation on warm days as well as insulation on cold periods, virtually eliminating the need for air conditioning.
Gay's house is small - about 20 square meters. The wall printing took only 10 days, while the estimated materials cost is just under $1,000.
• Built: not specified
• Put into operation: October 7, 2018
• Where: Massa Lombarda, Ravenna, Italy
• By: WASP, Ricehouse
AirBnB's first 3D printed home
The perfect weekend getaway.
You can find many different types of accommodation on AirBnB, but what about a 3D printed home?
The so-called Fibonacci house is the first 3D printed house to be offered for booking through AirBnB.
Considering that it is located in rural British Columbia, it will be a wonderful place to stay.
Although the Fibonacci house looks small, it has a lot to offer vacationers. About 35 square meters is enough to accommodate up to four people.
The concrete walls of the house were designed and printed by Dutch 3D printing firm Twente. 20 concrete parts were produced offsite in just 11 days. The material was produced by Laticrete. The parts were later transported and assembled at their current location.
• Built: 2020
• Commissioned: Not specified
• Where: Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada
• By: Twente Additive Manufacturing
First 3D printed houseboat
Prvok is not only the first 3D printed house in the Czech Republic, but the world's first floating 3D printed house on a pontoon.
The project was implemented by the start-up company Scoolpt. The concrete structure of the houseboat took only 22 hours to print.
Approximately 43 square meters of living space divided into bathroom, bedroom and living room with kitchen. Weight isn't usually discussed in the context of houses, but given that this one is on water, it's interesting to note that Prvok weighs 43 tons.
The house is equipped with a built-in recirculating shower and tanks for drinking and municipal water and has a service life of at least 100 years.
• Built: June 2020
• Commissioned: August 18, 2020
• Where: Prague, Czech Republic
• By: Scoolpt
Europe's first 3D printed residential house
Not every 3D printed house has visible line layers.
More often than not, 3D printed houses are demos made to show what the technology can do. For most of them there is no information about the actual residents. But in 2017, the couple did move to live in a 3D printed house located in Nantes, France. Thus, the house of "Yanov" became the first of its kind, which was inhabited in Europe.
The house is a project of the University and the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes. An interesting aspect of the project is the special technique used in its construction by BatiPrint3D. Instead of 3D printing a concrete structure, the robotic arm created wall shells using polyurethane, a material used for insulation. Later, these membranes were filled with concrete.
It took a total of 54 hours to print. It took a little over 4 months to complete the construction. Mainly due to the fact that the rest of the components were created using conventional means. House area - 95 square meters.
• Built: 2017
• Commissioned: March 2018
• Where: Nantes, France
• By: University of Nantes, Nantes Digital Science Lab
India's first 3D printed house
This building was built in a couple of days.
India's first ever 3D printed house was completed back in 2020. The project was carried out by construction startup Tvasta, founded by graduates from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
In fact, the institute's Chennai campus was chosen as the location of the building.
The significance of this project lies in its possible impact on the solution of the housing crisis worldwide and in India in particular. The ability to build such a house within a few days and at a low cost cannot be underestimated.
House 55.7 sq.m. with a spacious layout, one bedroom, combined kitchen and living room.
The concrete structure of the house was 3D printed off site and the parts were later transported and assembled on campus. The foundation, meanwhile, was built using the conventional method of pouring concrete into the ground.
• Built: 2020
• Commissioned: Not specified
• Where: Chennai, India
• By: Tvasta Construction
Africa's first 3D printed house
Back in 2019, in the Moroccan city of Ben Guerir, Spanish firm Be More 3D created Africa's first 3D printed house. The project originated during the team's participation in the Solar Decathlon in Africa.
This is an international competition during which teams design and build solar-powered houses.
Be More 3D printed house 32 sq.m. in about 12 hours, took first place and received the title of the most innovative startup.
Be More 3D didn't stop building in Africa and later created the first 3D printed house in Spain and developed its own concrete 3D printer in partnership with several corporations from the automation and materials industries.
• Built: 2019
• Commissioned: Not specified
• Where: Ben Guerir, Morocco
• By: Be More 3D
First 3D printed home for sale in the US
Last on our list is the first 3D printed home for sale in the US.
This house was printed in the same place by SQ4D, a company specializing in the development of robotic building systems. The building was printed with SQ4D's Arcs concrete extrusion system and has a 50-year warranty on the printed structure.
Living area of 130.
