This 3-D-printed house costs $10,000 and can be built in 24 hours
Now this is something that borders on genius, you can replace all the shanties in the world with something durable and useful, let alone able to go up quickly. Genius.
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Keep in mind the poverty these people live in.. when I was in Ethiopia on a UN relief mission for Kigali, Rwanda during the ethnic cleansing/genocide (US Air Force), we were backing up the C-5 we flew in on into a parking space on the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia airport tarmac. (Yes, we can put a C-5 in reverse and back it up without a Yuke... just takes a hell of a lot of fuel - probably more than the last 1000 miles of flying did). We probably weighed around 850,000 lbs at the time, so we were giving the thrust reversers (everything), plus doing a sharp turn.
There were some huts of some kind along side the taxiway.. we didn't really pay any attention to them, corrugated metal strapped on some 4x4's.. kind of looked like 2-3 stall out-houses for the airport workers we assumed - well... T/R winds at "100s of miles an hour" will certainly blow such structures over - and we did. Then out came the people.. and the children... About 10 living in each one of them actually. They were indeed for the workers, but not toilets, they were the houses for the families... I would say each one was 6 or 8 x 10 feet at the most - living next to an active taxiway servicing Lufthanse primarily with a daily jumbo jet commercial schedule.
Obviously we felt horrible when we realized what we did, but the only compensation they wanted was the lumber from our pallets we hauled the food there on - you see, the pallet wood was way better than their available replacement materials - so they went to town with some tools we gave them building some more sturdy structures that won't blow over when a jet taxis by.
I have a great photo of some kids playing marbles on the taxiway underneath the wing of a 757 as it taxied by - kids were ducking down as the GE engine rumbled over their heads.
Trust me... this is quite an improvement for the third world.
I still think that prefab modular panels would be cheaper, easier to contruct on site, and could contain piping and electrical inside it on a production line.
So much for my Jurassic genius, though.
My aging dino mind keeps forgetting that I want to read that book.
The walls do have a mostly hollow center with diagonal supports. It might be filled with insulation materials, too.
I wonder how well it can be scaled for larger structures.
https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyl...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
The MSM hate this book and revile its author. Sound like any other author you know?
I would bet a monolithic house, using balloon forms and spray on cement, is cost competitive. The monolithic house is also more wind and weather resistant. Here in Oklahoma, the dome-shaped monolithic structures are becoming popular, as they make excellent tornado shelters.
Was hoppin the prices would go back up to cover my investment...
Bump back at ya.
I love the idea of robots in housing construction. Knock the price down by 50% and I might even buy something (if I could find a place that I can tolerate the government looting;^)
Cinder blocks don't come out smooth either, unless you cover them up with something that drives up the labor cost.
I'd be more interested in whether this method can easily include super insulation that would pay for the entire structure in a relatively short period.
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