In Buena Vista, Colorado, the future of housing has quietly arrived. Two residential homes—each roughly 1,100 square feet—have been built not by hammers and saws, but by the steady rhythm of a massive 3D construction printer. The company behind the project, VeroTouch, employed the BOD2 printer from Danish manufacturer COBOD, layering high-performance concrete into full-scale homes that are as durable as they are innovative. This marks the first time residential homes in the state have been completed using large-format 3D printing technology, and the implications are enormous.
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While 3D printing might be most commonly used to print smaller-sized models or prototypes, that doesn’t mean it can’t also be used to print larger objects. Much, much larger. In Belgium, Europe’s largest 3D printer was recently used to print an entire house. Unlike other 3D-printed houses we’ve covered (of which there are a handful), this one has two floors — making it one of the biggest and most ambitious 3D-printed housing projects we’ve seen.
“[We used a] gantry printer delivered by COBOD [based in Denmark],” Emiel Ascione, project manager at Kamp C, the firm behind the project, told Digital Trends. “It was their prototype BOD2 [printer]. A gantry printer operates basically like the most common small plastic printers and uses the same type of software, [but on a much larger scale]. The concrete, the silo, as well as the mixing and pumping installation. were delivered by our partner Weber.”
The enormous gantry printer, measuring 32 feet x 32 feet, was used to print the shell of the house. Additional features such as the roof and windows were then added the old-fashioned way. It boasts numerous innovative sustainable features, including solar panels and underfloor heating.
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