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The World's First 3D Printed Canal House
The World's First 3D Printed Canal House - IGNANT3D printing is without said a step into the future of adapting without human hands, however this is the first time it’s been used in large beneficial scale – a home.
Originally launching in early 2014 at an expo-site in Amsterdam North, Amsterdam based DUS architects and contributing partners have made the 13 room project reality. To fabricate 3D printing in a larger scale for a 8 square-meter house the team developed a jumbo size printer named ‘KamerMaker’, printing matter up to 2 x 2 x 3,5 meters. The canal house will be open to public until 2017.
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Amsterdam architects plan 3D-printed canal house
Emilie Chalcraft | 6 comments
News: Dutch studio DUS Architects has joined the race to build the first 3D-printed house with plans to print a full-size canal house in Amsterdam.
DUS Architects will print components for the house on-site using a purpose-built printer called the KamerMaker (above and below) and plan to start work in the next six months.
"This year we want to print the entire facade and the first room bit by bit," architect Hedwig Heinsman told Dezeen. "Then in the following months and years we will print other rooms."
The KamerMaker, which is Dutch for "room maker", is 3.5 metres high and sits inside a shipping container. Each building component will be printed and tested at a scale of 1:20 before being printed at a 1:1 scale with the KamerMaker.
Above: a round window frame printed with the KamerMaker
The house will be built in a developing area alongside the Buiksloter-canal in the north of the city, where it will act as a hub for research into 3D-printed architecture. "We want to build a construction site as an event space," sais Heinsman. "We'll have the printer there and every print we make will be exhibited.
It's very much about testing and learning."
The first floors and facades of the house will be printed from polypropylene, but the architects hope to eventually use bioplastics and plastic recycled on-site.
Once the first part of the canal house is complete, it will be put to use as a "welcoming room" while the architects design and print additional rooms.
Each room will be dedicated to a specific research theme, such as the "cook room" where researchers will explore 3D printing with potato starch and the "policy room" where they'll consider how to obtain permits for printed structures.
Other rooms will include a workshop to test and repair designs and a "recycle room" where used items like plastic bottles will be shredded into printing material for the KamerMaker.
"We have the building grounds for three years, so I'm pretty confident it will last for that long, but of course our aim is for longer," said Heinsman. "We also had the idea that if at one moment we had to relocate it, we would just shred all the pieces and build it anew somewhere.
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The race to complete the first 3D-printed house is already well underway, with London collective Softkill Design recently announcing plans for a plastic dwelling that could be printed in three weeks and assembled in a day, while Dutch firm Universe Architecture intends to print a house based on a Möbius strip.
DUS Architects' previous projects include a pavilion made of bubbles and a pop-up bar made of umbrellas, both on the streets of Rotterdam.
Other 3D-printed designs we've featured lately include a floor-length nylon gown designed for burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese and a fuel-efficient three-wheeled car – see all 3D printing news.
Read more about the project on DUS Architects' website.
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Reportage about construction 3D printing in Russia
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and a manufacturer of construction 3D printers based in Yaroslavl and successfully operating in the Russian and foreign markets. The narrator is the head of the enterprise Alexander Maslov.
In already completed projects, AMT-Spetsavia printed houses both on top of the foundation and in blocks in workshop conditions. In the video, Alexander clarifies this point, which is related, among other things, to weather conditions.
“If we print a prefab in the shop, then [the process] does not depend on weather conditions in any way. Both winter and summer are about the same temperature, which is good. When you print on a foundation (which everyone loves because it eliminates the assembly step, which is quite a lot of time and money), then of course the weather conditions come into play. The construction season is usually from spring to autumn. It's hard to print in very hot weather because the long, thin concrete walls start to crack. To do this, various additives are introduced into the concrete or the printing is transferred to a more convenient night time. Comfortable temperatures are from spring to autumn, from about 5°C to 25°C. Of course, precipitation and strong winds have a very strong influence - the structure still has windage, and there is a slight shift in the printed layers. Light rain is not a hindrance, in heavy rain the wet concrete will erode, so you need to keep an eye on the weather.
As a rule, an hour and a half before the approach of a thunderstorm, we stop printing, wash the equipment and wait. There is another option to close it with some kind of canopy or a greenhouse, but it’s actually easier to miss two hours of printing than to fence the roof, ”said Alexander. nine0003
A 100 square meter 3D printed box takes thirty to thirty five hours to build. Fixed formwork is printed, which can be poured with foam compounds after one or several days, depending on the brand of concrete.
Alexander did not dare to give an exact figure, since the pace of work for each team is different, but in general, a small house can be built in about a month, including pouring the foundation and curing, 3D printing of formwork, inserting windows, doors, and so on. nine0003
According to Alexander, about forty companies are currently operating in the global market for 3D construction printing — some are engaged in the development and production of equipment, some directly in construction, some combine them.
According to Alexander, AMT-Spetsavia accounts for 70% of the world production of construction 3D printers, with half of them going to Russian customers. In six years, the company has sold two hundred and forty pieces of equipment to sixteen countries. nine0003
AMT-Spetsavia produces portal 3D printers of two main types - workshop systems and larger options for outdoor work. The former are used in 3D printing of small architectural forms and building blocks, while the latter are installed on construction sites and print formwork directly on top of foundations.
The working area of such large-scale systems varies from one hundred and twenty square meters with the possibility of erecting two-story structures up to four hundred and twenty square meters. The latter can theoretically build buildings up to twenty-six stories high, although in practice such grandiose projects have not yet been implemented. nine0003
Details in the report of the channel "Low-Rise Country":
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Europe's first 100% 3D printed home welcomes its new occupants, a couple from Amsterdam
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What it means 3D printer is just the beginning of a new stage in the industry.
Residential buildings built using 3D printing technology have a number of significant advantages over "classic" buildings. Firstly, the speed of the project, the first house was printed in five days, but going forward, the company plans to produce concrete elements on site, as well as use a 3D printer to create auxiliary installations, which will reduce construction time and costs. nine0003 In addition, in an era of global concern for the state of the environment, such "green" technologies help to reduce environmental damage to the environment - with 3D printing, the consumption of cement and waste of building materials is much less than with "traditional" construction.
Finally, with the help of a 3D printer, almost any design idea can be realized, which will allow you to move away from the concept of residential buildings in the form of "concrete boxes". The development of this technology makes it possible to erect buildings of such forms that are difficult and expensive to build using traditional methods.
