07-03-2014, 05:27 AM
A Chinese company just completed a successful test using 3D printing technology to construct ten small homes in 24 hours. The modules are prototypes, so for now they use a simple design, but in the future almost any shape should be possible.
Think of what this could mean for Puna:
* Inexpensive homes
* Fireproof (so you could get by with the most basic insurance coverage)
* Hurricane Resistant - could be engineered with rounded corners
* Termite Proof
* Can use lava and recycled cement as a building material
* Roof and walls would provide insulation (similar to adobe)
* Organic architecture as espoused by Frank Lloyd Wright: an attempt to integrate the spaces into a coherent whole: a marriage between the site and the structure and a union between the context and the structure. In other words, it would be possible to build a home that looked like an extension of the lava flow on which it was built.
What do you think? If this technology became available locally would you build and live in a 3D lava home?
http://qz.com/230032/how-3d-printing-10-...-of-waste/
Think of what this could mean for Puna:
* Inexpensive homes
* Fireproof (so you could get by with the most basic insurance coverage)
* Hurricane Resistant - could be engineered with rounded corners
* Termite Proof
* Can use lava and recycled cement as a building material
* Roof and walls would provide insulation (similar to adobe)
* Organic architecture as espoused by Frank Lloyd Wright: an attempt to integrate the spaces into a coherent whole: a marriage between the site and the structure and a union between the context and the structure. In other words, it would be possible to build a home that looked like an extension of the lava flow on which it was built.
What do you think? If this technology became available locally would you build and live in a 3D lava home?
http://qz.com/230032/how-3d-printing-10-...-of-waste/
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