The Race to 3D-Print Our World
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- Get set, go! The race is on to 3D-print our world - but the winner will need to solve some massive challenges. For more by Tomorrow’s Build subscribe now - bit.ly/3vOOJ98
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"We'll have to embrace living in burrows." Honestly, that would be an improvement for hundreds of thousands of people.
They live in holes thousands of years ago to control the climate so its a very good idea
@@royalecrafts6252 yeah. Underground is pretty logical. This video seems short sighted, too little faith in consumer intelligence. Give it time.
I'm excited for what I imagine will be like, future building eaters that devour old building materials from ruins and use them as printable materials. I'd Really miss the urbanex scene, but woah, let's stop w the concrete already, jeez. Thankfully we have a lot of video documentation going into that now on YT etc anyway before the structures of industrial revolution become like, rotting logs on the forest floor, and all that
And how would these cave dwellers pay for this?
@@Mr.Monta77 I assume you're joking but the answer is "forward". They pay it forward. The community builds a home, people move in, rinse and repeat. No payment necessary.
@@bgiv2010 "No payment necessary" theres always payment necessary, but make home for homeles is a investment into people future.
Its so silly letting good people rot on the streat becuse of problems you know none about, sure some of them a bad apples that wil ever be to anyting.
but if we let them all rot then none of them wil.
in the end kindess is cheaper than indifference
with all the shortages around the world many will be happy just to have a home. Plus cant that have a machine that smooths the exteriors. I like the way the houses look.
Well he showed lots of renders instead of pictures, concrete can get really ugly fast
@@timhassler3488 not true concrete polished floor etc all super sexy looking
There are controllers in control of our ideology - they control our ideas of what a house "should be". This video is more of the same - we should shut down the world for just a MONTH to solve homelessness with these technologies, but instead we pump out videos about how the tech is "not quite there yet..." The truth is that we could all live OFF THE GRID with relative ease and abundance..... they keep us trapped mentally. I have found a hundred great alternative house concepts researching for a couple years.... people do it. People just go to an island and start building. They have electricity and FREEDOM - not being forced to accept lie after lie after humiliating lie. The humiliation has to stop, humanity has to get serious. These materials and technologies are ABUNDANT and CLOSE TO FREE. Even the Amish I stayed with in PA will put up a house for 12 grand or something.... BIG, beautiful open wooden home, two stories and a loft. Thing goes up in about a day and a half. Get a solar panel, you're set. They try to scare people with septic and water.... again, more soluable than ever before in human history, and it was never a problem for people. in Mexico they all get together and make their own bricks and make the house with a few cases of beers. I feel like shelter could just be negligible for humans.... but then how would they keep people working useless jobs for a mortgage for decades?
@@edwardgibbon2557 Yes, Economic forces and Greed.
It definitely seems like it could be done. I don’t know why more people aren’t trying it.
Love the wasp model of using clay. This can do well in affordable housing situations, especially where I am in Africa. Waiting for the tech to be commercially available so I can start a business using it.
I saw a version of this using nothing but sunlight and sand as a building material. They sort of semi-melted the sand using a "magnifier" mounted on a solar-powered robotic builder. Really early prototype, but fascinating nonetheless.
@@DunnickFayuro incredible. makes me wonder why I am an engineer instead of an architect. like they say in the video, it is a tough nut to crack, but when you do get it right it changes the world
why not just make some adobe bricks.
@@atomictraveller bricks are there (though require burning so contribute to deforestation) - the problem is how do you then keep the bricks together without cement? hence 3D printing solves both of these problems.
@@markhemsworth2670 conscionable production methods are never an obstacle for people trhinking how great buying a fucking machine is eh
I love the way they look. 3D printed homes look like pottery to me and I’m a potter.
Don't hide out like Diogenese! Hope you find good room to participate. Cheers!
Many homes print in clay, I've interviewed nearly every 3D printed construction company CEO on my podcast
How do you watch videos on TH-cam 500 years ago?
not quite, the standard of every generation becomes different depending what era you where born in, so we at this current era might be amazed in the future homes looks like but not the future generations, their standards would be definetly higher than ours.
I think the “bulb” shaped house in Italy was beautiful, all things considered.
I find the texture of the the structure, combined with the overall shape, to be quite calming and natural.
Yeah I would gladly live there
I just want to see some zaha hadid 3d printed structure to see if its possible
@@royalecrafts6252 Is she still working, designing?
@@linmal2242 she died long time ago hahaha, but her designs are still out there
I KNOW! I WANT That HOuse!🏠 Love the tree in the interior 🌳 😍
I was literally just aching for a Tomorrow's Build video.
Haha same
Please talk to your doctor!
For homes, I just don't see it. Like, prefab-offsite, with lightweight-sustainable materials makes more sense to me.
Foundations? Sure.
A weird concrete dome in the backyard? Sure.
Otherwise, it's just overkill with the concrete.
That is absolutely true. Besides concrete is a source of high CO2 emissions and not sustainable. The solution is not 3D printing in concrete.
They addressed this at 7:33
@@gianni.santi. Mentioned rather.
i don't know, living under cast silt at arcosanti wasn't so unbearable.
but adobe does accomplish the same task without the fuss.
When i was a kid i saw this cartoon from the 50s showing a helicopter poring concrete to build a skyscraper and finishing of the top with a fancy twist in a ice cream.
All this 3D printing of homes reminds me of that
It wouldn't be hard to add finishes and facades to the 3D printed 'bones' of the home to add that character you mention. Having a reinforced concrete home seems very appealing given the rise of extreme weather around the world. For Tornado / Hurricane zones this seems like an excellent solution.
To my knowledge, reinforced concrete like traditional buildings arent earthquake resistant. Unless these 3D printed ones are due to the pttern that makes up the wall...
I would absolutely love to live in one of those, just a tiny one bedroom would make me so happy.
Buy yourself a tent
@@nesp_phieti This guy gets it.
@@goosenuggets9693 No. He DOESN’T.
@@nesp_phieti Try thinking, before leaving a comment. It’s not easy though. Good luck.
At this point, I'd live in a concrete cube. Wanting great architecture when a shitty apartment is all one can afford is silly. Clean and functional is good enough for me.
As a just graduated Architect and as part of my master thesis on digital manufacturing and topological optimization i realized this (sorry for my english):
-Lets not forget that for concrete is just as easy to acquire the shape of a brick as the shape of the most complex sculpture, it's depend's on the mold, and does not need a 3D printer to achieve complex shapes, but rather is on the concrete nature.
-For me, 3D Printing and CNC has potential to develop the tools and molds for very optimized and complex components that can be produced in a large scale, but as a method of making the actual part, nothing can beat the plasticity of concrete, so a repetitive or adaptable 3d mold used in the conventional way is much more realistic and able to achieve great results
Not gonna lie I love the "look" of these printed buildings. I mean the fact that this is a hold up is amazingly disappointing.
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It isn’t a hold up simply on the design aspect just because this guy (Fred Mills) says it is. There is 0 proof of that other than the narrator saying as much. Cheap affordable housing is needed everywhere regardless of the look. However, let’s not shy away from the aesthetics, they are great as many people even on this video have said, plus the new designs and shapes can make for a level of safety and security that you just don’t get with a box house. We are at that short stint, the hesitant breath, between realizing the full scope of 3D printing on a large scale and adoption. We are in the arena when large 3D printers are here, we just need more of them and more skilled workers trained in operating them.
That hurdle always gets overcome and this story will be archived ever sooner because of it.
@@benlabarre5547 Ben, you said "cheap affordable housing is needed" but that's not really how things work here in the United States. Home Builders want price pressure all the way up the line, from Starter Homes to "McMansions". In fact, fewer and fewer Contractors are building Starter Homes because the big profits aren't there. If 3-D printing cut the Contractor's labor expense in half, I predict the Contractor will price the 3-D house at the same figure as a traditional house. Because PROFITS.
@@stevechance150 Even at today’s level of advancement there is plenty enough for every marketable bracket. I was speaking more towards the fact that this tech will push costs down when creating a home is a matter of allowing a robot to work through the night, sans intervention. Aluminum used to be quite a precious resource but with the application of technology it has become cheap and ubiquitous, the same will happen with housing.
Not being constrained/forced into certain shapes will quickly be seen as the boon that it is. Housing that protects against fire, flood, hurricane, and earthquake will be in high demand from all market sectors and other funded projects (government, charity, org). A box has it’s downsides and we can now overcome those.
I would live in one. I think it's logical and obviously stronger. The round corners are strong and wind won't be nearly as dangerous. I would want the hollow walls filled with dirt like an Earthship tire wall. It would be like a cave, no heat or AC needed usually.
Such quality. Much wow.
Much quality. Such wow.
BUY XRP
@@ksr3535 Wow quality. Such much
3D-printing entire buildings on-site is kinda counter-productive. Pre-fab method is very useful in construction (not just for buildings, even things like ships, computers, shirts, etc.). Putting together pre-fab components (3D-printed or otherwise) is a faster way to build more homes.
pre fab runs into issues with larger buildings where the parts become hard to transport by road. Not that additive manufacturing can solve these issues currently, but it might in the future
Major Fallacy
You can fabricate the parts in any size need. That is the whole point of 3D printing.
@@majorfallacy5926 Not entire buildings need to be pre-fab, just components of suitable sizes to be assembled on-site. Technically, bricks are pre-fab components, almost 0 building project has on-site kiln.
@@majorfallacy5926 yes all this transport is a cost. you can always get local concrete and just move your 3d printer to print serveral houses on site. why use diesel on a zero energy house.
but off course not all ideas are a succes.
@@schwarzerritter5724 yes, whitout the transport and costs.
The look is really cool. I believe the children of the now & future will enjoy the unique look of these homes.
Not like they'll have much choice, the people they print those for will likely be at the bottom of society. Instead of building your own hut now you have to pay for it, they'll basically be enslaved once the knowledge of how to build their own is gone.
It’s a great day when there’s a new tomorrow’s build video.
Ah thanks so much! Glad you're liking the channel so far. What's been your favourite video to date?
@@TomorrowsBuild I loved this one!
@@TomorrowsBuild the timber and singapore power line ones were pretty informative
Finally a balanced approach to technological advancements in construction
I've never really had the urge to buy a home because the designs don't appeal to me. These 3D printed designs however have me drooling.
I don't actually think variety is that important? Here in the UK we have vast estates of the same semi-detached homes over and over. They've been altered and customised over the 70-100 years they've existed, but they're still ultimately the same. And they're almost all desirable.
That phase has finished. That has already been done. So why do the same?
Come on let's start going crazy with this new tech.
that’s because you have grown up and lived in that type of similar look. To me an australian, that type of exact same home is depressing and i don’t think i’d be able to live in an area like that.
Desirable is an overstatement, most buyers don't have a choice as that's what available 😔
They aren’t desirable people just don’t have choice
I personally don’t find them very desirable…
Pre fab houses have same shape as normal house and can be standardized, saving cost and can built integrating energy saving and efficiency
Agreed. Manufactured houses could be/should have been the answer. If they could just lose the trashy reputation, they would be.
I guess advancements in 3D printed buildings are bound to happen if the housing prices continues to rise.
The problem is in the costs of a land. Not in buildings.
Concrete is not the solution.
@@Mr.Monta77 It's a concrete solution.
@@MyLittleMagneton it's not, definitely not. Concrete is a huge problem material for our society. It`s cheap and quick and bla bla bla bla but it is a dumb material that produces soo much CO2. We have been using it since soo long. its time to entre the age of biotech. thank you.
@@surferboy198 /r woosh.
But in all seriousness, whilst I do agree, any alternative would have to at least be comparable. We are never going to use something that is harder to work with AND more expensive. If you think you have a biotech solution to that, go and collect your Nobel prize.
The Italian clay house is stunning! I would love to have one just like it!
Thanks for such a great video on my birthday!
Also, if it’s a race to make 3D printed buildings, then let’s call it the print sprint!
Haha, you're welcome! Happy birthday!!
the 1970s would be like print sprint stint hints mint or skint
All the need is a trow both sides of 3D print head to smooth the print!
I would love to live in an odd shaped home, an 8 by 8 box has no character!
Very interesting and well presented. I am not convinced about 3D printing buildings for all the reasons you outlined, but also, 3D printing can only ever be part of the construction activity.
If a typical construction consists of (1) foundations, (2) the superstructure, and (3) the fit-out of the superstructure, items 1 and 3 are typically the most lengthy parts of the construction task and 3D printing doesn’t help at all. As you showed on the video, once the printer is setup it can print walls quite quickly, probably quicker than you can put block and brickwork up, but setting the equipment up is a precise task that takes time, and you can VERY quickly assemble the superstructure of a property using factory made panels, SIPPS or similar. Factory made panels also have the advantage that you can incorporate aspects of the fit-out work as well, the windows, electrics, plumbing, etc so I think that’s a much more preferable way to go for the construction industry, and 3D printing will remain just a niche idea
Not sure even quicker but dont pay machines
It may be that 3-D is just tech candy with more social than physical utility. Shortcuts or (programming) omissions can still ruin work, requiring repair callbacks that very grateful people may hesitate to make. A company in Michigan is already exploring component build-and-assemble.
to me the 3D printed aesthetic (those ripples) are a big plus; it looks natural, almost as if could be created by natural forces or animals.
Is missing the last word : genital organ
So True!
@@mariano7699 fits in with the "natural" aesthetic, if you know what I mean
I want to live in a burrow
I think these buildings have a unique identity and that's fine, even good
this could be great for single family homes. they look cool n futuristic
@Hobbit Girl A home is meant to be practical, there's a reason why we have been constructing the way we have for the last few thousand years near irrespective of the civilization. The more complicated the house, the more complicated the methods to build it, the more likely that something with breakdown or that the actual design itself will be foolish in practical use.
@Wild Flower Like a chia pet?
My main concern is the big use of concrete. You can make them attractive by using different materials (like that one in Italy), or by using wood for decorations; I think that would make it more interesting for a lot of people.
they could just attach a smoothing plate to the printing arm, removing all the bumps off the wall as you go around
also, do they have to use concrete? could they use something less permanent? this would be disposable/temporary housing, and maybe recyclable
I'm still leaning more on the side of timber.
Yeah, this could however be a good solution for small homes.
Both, I say both are good if 3D printing can find much more sustainable ways with less CO2 emissions and slightly more variety it should do fine and is timber buildings can finally convince people they won't fall over just cause they're wood then and won't catch fire then it should do fine to
If anything I think there is great potential in both of them it's just about convincing the general population that it is worth the initial investment, these are my thoughts about it but I'm open to other ideas.
More use of timber in construction --> higher prices/more deforestation
I used to dislike timber, but recently it’s been growing on me.
@@OstapVasilevschi properly harvested timber is actually a way to capture co2 from the atmosphere and turn it into buildings. Opposite of concrete
Interesting, I just did a presentation about 3D printing at my University and it was 90% similar to the content of this video. But you guys forgot to mention that you can operate a 3D construction site with only 10% of the labour force you usually need. The building you mentioned which was made in Germany was effectively operated by just 2 people instead of 20 for this job. This can be seen as negative because people become obsolete or positive because costs go down a lot.
I think it's positive for a country like germany and negative for a country like Mexico. Hope it's more adapted in the first then the latter
@@ViriatoII Why? Killing jobs or reducing costs has the same effect everywhere.
@@stelzi290888 I'd say Mexico needs these jobs more than Germany, where people don't want them and have to hire from outside
Two people huh!
All the electrical/plumbing/HVAC, finishing of doors, windows, roofing, bathrooms, kitchen…
@@jdmather5755 yea two people! That refers to the construction of the walls, the whole point of this video. The process of plumbing and so on hasn´t changed.
I love these rounded corners. Finally it’s here.
Better solution is Concrete Water Tanks. 30 Foot diameter. Doors and Windows can be inserted easily with just a timber blank during the pour. Connect multiple tanks with pavilion style corridors. One tank will make two rooms and a corridor, or one large room. Another can be split into kitchen, bathroom laundry. Four tanks around a central courtyard each connected with glass walkway. Very cheap to build, they come with a flat or peaked corrogated iron roof. Here in Australia, one tank with roof costs less than $20,000, and doors and windows are free. You can take one tank, split it in half, and connect both halves with a conventional light build. All up you can get a great house, for less than $100,000
You telling me they can't add a robot trowel to the side of the printer head?
I like ur thinking
"We're back to people having to embrace living in a burrow" i love it
For clients who want a smooth walled home, add a vertical blade to the side of the printing nozzle that automatically smooths the concrete as it's applied... then, if needed, sand the finished surface to smooth out any remaining bumps. Make the vertical blade retractable when the nozzle needs to do inside wall applications. Seems like an easy solution for a mechanical engineer to develop along with the nozzle.
The problem in Europe and UK in particular, I would argue is more to do with;
1. Mortgage companies reluctance to lend money to buy a house built out of unusual materials or in an unusual way. Making it more difficult or more expensive to lend money to buy these houses. Also this leads to making it harder to sell the house to the next buyer and may mean selling the house for less than it's value.
2. In UK, brick's are seen as aesthetically pleasing, while concrete is seen as industrial and must be hidden from view. An attitude I never understood, but then again I love engineering.
While I will agree that concrete dose use a lot of energy in it's manufacture, however when you compare it with the other materials we have at present, I would argue that it's still is one of the most environmentally friendly ways of building we have.
Funny that looking like a "3 printed house" is a negative. I myself find the look mesmerizing. I really hope this technology can get a foot hold and become every day reality.
I think you could make very strong, sustainable, cheap and perfectly insulated houses quickly with 3D printing eventually. I think it desperately needs two additional robots to go with it: one to add all non-structural components such as lighting, electrical equipment, temporary support structures, doors and windows. The other necessary thing would be a surface finishing robot.
a few things for the second layer use steel, for the supports. for more viable materials dont use concrete. basically what we are trying to do is create a hard substance like a rock, but in the shape we customize.
limestone is used as a glue, or binding agent, with rock dust. to make concrete, which is like a customized rock.
so change the binding agent. If you go plant based you can make a binding agent from either rice plants, soy plants, or even corn or wheat. also since the oil industry has so much extra plastic, just use plastic. plastic is hard and waterproof.
and quite fireproof. you could even take all the recycled PET plastics, melt it down, and make a house with it. Any exterior which is ugly can always be covered with modern siding, and the interior with sheetrock and paint, or wallpaper.
plastic just may be the most easily and readily available resource we have atm. and very cheap. But the point is, the material used should always be 100% fully customizeable to use the most readily and affordably available materials that are available in your area. If wood and concrete are expensive, dont use them, because it doesnt make financial and logical sense.
this is a breathe of fresh air because im never stunned by the houses these days but these are so enticing
Wooden homes are more efficient than most of the homes built with other materials(including concrete). It’s perfect, easy to deal with, repair, cheap and still structurally sound. It is also renewable. This may be useful in many industries though.
@cera ten First of all, there is no shortage of wood. That’s an illusion that the media made you think it’s true. So, first check the facts and then say/write something.
Second, you have shown lack of knowledge about American homes. Wooden homes are even better statically than the concrete homes because they’re able to flex a lot more as a construction than the concrete and steel. Even greater adoption in the mid rise building is a proof that what you’re saying is not true. Also, none of the real wooden homes have been blown away by any wind. The homes you see in the news are mostly Mobile homes on a fixed piece of land. Those are not the real wooden home!! A good solid wooden home cannot just get blown away as you wrongly interpreted. Also, there’s nothing that you can do about a huge hurricane but expect some damage. No concrete, clay or whatever you mentioned can help you with that. You’re not even aware of what that is because you have not experienced it enough to really talk about it.
You are just used to one kind of thinking which is a classic European crap that has nothing to do with facts. I lived in Europe for long enough and I know exactly your mindset.
@@tomislavcosic4185 Don't mind him, i'm living in EU too and it's pretty common that people here have a standarts for their homes so it should withstand warfare, literally. For me it's a nonsence - wasting resources and time to prepare for something that probably won't happen and if it will - structure integrity of your house will be less of your problems. But it's probably too because of USA speciality where you have a lot of states under the same goverment and you can easily swtich your residense since market is huge and all process are very fast and effective, while in EU it's more about when you bought a house you need to expect that you will gonna live there untill you die. But that will change with time when new generations will come without those strange attechements to an obsolete traditions values.
@@Mr_Bartt Haha! That last part about ‘obsolete traditions’ made me laugh 😂 I think we (Americans) push a little too much when it comes homeownership. It has become more than just a place to live, more like a trophy and also the main source of retirement savings. That’s also not the best approach. It can lead people to do big time purchases and stretch their finances. I’d say that a good balance In approach would be somewhere between the European and US culture when it come to housing.
Structurally, American homes usually have concrete fundamentals, and steel/aluminum/wooden frames. The rest is up to the builder to decide. Mobile homes can be installed on the piece of land as if they are real wooden structures tied to the fundamentals. The fact is, they are not and they can’t compare to real homes in no possible way.
It’s good to know that there are Europeans who have open minded approach.I’m not saying it’s all bad with bricks and concrete-if you want to have that. However, to say that wood cannot withstand winds is an uneducated speculation.
@@Mr_Bartt Where are you from by the way?
@@tomislavcosic4185 I'm residing in Ukraine in big city (apartment). So even if i would stay here and wanna to retire near the city in a private house, i wouldn't invest my money into some concrete fortress and rather buy a wooden house, atleast climate here is manageable. I guess the reason behind the idea of having internal concrete house, is laying behind the view on the realestate as mandatory family heritage. Partially that derives from the previous agrocultural era (as most other prejudices). So most people are attached to the homes where they growth up and their environment, especially in rural areas.
Some of these buildings actually look very dope to live in
I like the living in a burrow part... especially in hot desert areas. Equally it could work better in cold areas too, if the insulation factor is good. It seems like a win to me.
This is the future of building. I do not see any challenges when it comes to using a proven better way of building. I mean you have more choices than with conventional building techniques. It's faster and cheaper. When it comes to esthetics, it's even possible to choose more rounded corners instead of a sharp box.
I'd feel like I'm living inside the Michelin man house
He keeps talking about the "weird" aesthetics. Does he think that the square buildings we have now and look all the same are appealing? The bulb shapes and irregular surfaces seem much more pleasant to me.
They may look pleasant but they would be hardly practicle. Try putting up a bookshelf or putting a desk against a wall or hanging a painting or TV on a wall and it's clear why walls in houses currently are flat
Over thousand of years of rectangular houses with triangular roofs, humanity has gotten used to them. It's not about aesthetics.
Those 3D printes houses look alien.
@@fortniteawesomeparodys3385 Get a freestanding one!
Normies want to live in normie houses.
@@fortniteawesomeparodys3385 Those things are only difficult because everything is designed with square walls in mind. It's hardly a difficult design problem to make a desk on a curve.
Furthermore, it's not clear that the curved walls are a necessity of 3D printing, since there were many examples in the video of 3D printed buildings with straight walls. I think the organic shapes were a design choice, perhaps to lean into the "strangeness" of a 3D printed look rather than run away from it, or take advantage of the flexibility in 3D printing whereas traditional methods basically require flat surfaces. If you want a 3D printed house with straight walls it's not difficult to do.
For 3D printed homes to become more mainstream, it has to go down the prefab route. Mass produce sections off-site in a factory. Each home design could use various parts which are then shipped to site for assembly.
A crucial part has not been mentioned imho. Bricklaying is maybe the fastest and least labour intense part of constructing a house. Plumbing, electricity, heating system,carpentry, etc are much slower and cannot be done by robots.
No one will pay for a massive machine with highly qualified operators for a work which can be done in a week or two by a relatively cheap brigade.
my question is: how to put in steel reinforcement? without steel reinforcement, the max you can build is 3 floors or so.
Who would win? Timber or 3D printing ?
For us it's timber!
Why not both?
Timber, clearly.
In Altrincham south of Manchester a number of single storey prefab homes were built after the war. There were plans to replace them with more modern homes in the 1980s, but the residents objected and a closer study of the design spec suggested the 'modern' homes would be less energy efficient. The original prefabs were produced in Canada, which has a rather more variable climate than the UK, and the buildings were to Canadian spec. Similar to Russia the stove and fireplaces were in the centre of the building, the air-flow through the building was (apparently) well thought out and the walls were well insulated but I believe the outside walls were wood sheeting coated with concrete. In the end the homes were upgraded with a brick cladding. Given the advantages of being able to prefab the components, lay a foundation and assemble the building with little more than a mobile crane and with all the electrics and plumbing pre-installed I would think 3-D printing has quite a few challenges to overcome in terms of cost. A lot depends on the design of course, there are also flats for the terminally aspirational in Manchester with apartments arrayed along a single wall, hence opening the windows produces minimal air movement, given that home owners were aware of this issue it is surprising that architects and building regulators apparently were not.
What?! People don't like the way 3D printed houses look. They look fire to me!! Supper cool looking I would love to live in one. I'm standard apt.
As cool as 3D printing is, I feel like the next big breakthrough has been 'just around the corner' for 20 years now.
Yeah. We figured out the housing crisis in the 50s: manufactured housing. But we deemed it the housing of the poor people and still refuse to use it to make better, more interesting houses. Nobody wants weird unchanging concrete pod houses. But I dont think a rebranding is ever going to happen.
7:48 more like, 'we're back to people having to live in an onion'
I believe it would be possible to finish or texture the walls as they are being put in place.... similar to finishing gunite in a swimming pool. You could use decorative concrete stencils inside and out or rollers with patterns.
I think the only way to go up is with a robot welding the rebar (short pieces of rebar) and the printer has to be printing the part that now is mostly "prefab". Fill the walls with concrete and use the 3d printer for concrete pump. For savings in the concrete we can use concrete pipes that must be placed by the same robot that is welding this way we minimize plastics.
After the 3d printer is done for the floor workers can put in the plumbing elctrics and other stuff. the floor can be made to fit all the pipes exact so the will be no need to put extra spacers and stuff to hold it all down.
After the workers are done the 3d printer can put down a small layer of concrete and the welding machine can put in the top mesh and after that the 3d printer can go on and fill the floor to the exact level it needs to be.
I think this will work and it will be fast. only thing we need to figure out is how to let the 3d printer climb the building when going up like 50 levels :)
But what about durability? How will these homes hold up? Especially the one made out of clay, I feel like bugs could probably burrow through that one much easier
almost certainly more hype , bit like hyperloop etc
@@MyKharli The Hyperloop looks more promising than this shit
Having spent a lifetime in earthquake prone areas, these don't instill confidence in me. Cool, but I'll wait.
If the look is the only thing that's not working, I think they are going to have a bright future ahead of them. It is very compelling how much time they can save for a project.
The key question is how safe is the material from which is printed at home. And not only for people, but also for the environment. After all, when such a house comes into disrepair, it will need to be disposed of. Modular structures in this plan look much more practical. At least at the current level of technology development.
The future presents many opportunity's. Some more promising than others. Constructions so interesting but so tragic.
Great video guys, lots to learn from you guys 🔥.
Thanks!
This technology is amazing. I feel happy to be here living and learning in this time.
Yes! The 3d print look is unique, you could say it may be the look of human buildings in the future. They should also add some material that will add reinforcement like steel or carbon fiber or lattice around them.
The immediate issues I see with 3D printed building s especially homes. Wiring, and plumbing, insulation, not sustainable, not cheap, how would you repair any sort of damage to the homes, holes in the walls, etc.
Not to mention difficulty with renovating and possibly expanding said structures in the future, unlike with more traditionally made homes.
They are trying for that single silver bullet. Won't work as you said. Now if they made bearing walls and arches that can be knocked down and made a percentage from 3D printing it might work. Not all.
Conduits for wiring and plumbing is an easy one you just print voids to allow wiring and pipe work and incorporate a different material that can be cut into to allow flexibility of placement there’s lots of options and it’s not difficult to solve. Insulation is an easy one it can be printed double skinned and the cavity can be filled with all manner of sustainable insulation materials. As for damage to walls if you damage a concrete wall that will be an insurance job but it will depend on what kind of damage an where.
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These channels are often more flair/clickbait than substance with people who are actually educated on the industries at hand always watching in somewhat awe at how people are so easily deceived by cheap stock music and renderings.
At this point 3D building like this is just unfeasible for regular construction. For making one house this method would require an architect, a CAD specialist and technical engineers to keep all machines operational. At that point it'll simply be too expensive for these kind of construction projects. Multi-house low rise development projects would also be unfeasible as the cost of these machines are likely so high that a builder can't afford to have many of them thus only one or two houses can be completed at once before the machines need to be relocated. This really takes away any benefits it would have had over Prefab building methods where also more environmentally friendly materials like CLT can be used.
I designed and built my own dome home, it's great. Round is for living, square is for storing.
Great video! It would be interesting to see 3D printing and modular building compared
This guy is a genius.
In what way?
Another problem, I didn't see reinforcing steel
bc you don't need steel
@@Loren1389 I don't want to live inside this houses if there is earthquake! Every houses need reinforcing steel
@@Quarkstop974 Well tbf, not all places get earthquakes.
@@vp9549 ok tell me where
@@Quarkstop974 Like everywhere where there's not a geographic fault LoL You know what creates earthquakes, right?
aside from that, not every house in earthquake rich territory is built with steel, there are a lot of wooden structures that can very well take the stress, sometimes even better. If you don't know a lot about engineering, that's no problem, but you may wanna read up on that :)
I love the look of many of these houses (esp the Italian ones) - and many people prefer to live on just one floor after all. But when I see the rough inside walls on many of them, I just can't help thinking it'll be one perpetual dust trap! It's a good direction to be headed tho... 👍
Good to see some Proof of Concept happening. We'll have to see which materials and designs hold up over time. But yes, a lot of challenges before this goes mainstream.
A surface finishing robot is a great idea
Why are so many trying to 3d print each building on-site? Wouldn't it make more sense to do so in a controlled environment, like a factory building pre-fab parts to be assembled?
Good point. But it’s construction and what you have on paper doesn’t necessarily mean that’s how it will be on the ground. Also there might no be access for large pieces of house to be delivered onsite. So probably what will happen is both types of construction will happen on and offsite.
@@sid35gb Thanks for sharing. I think you're right, I saw a video recently about an Australian company that is using automation to build concrete block houses. That kind of manufacturing already exists, so being able to utilize it in an efficient way is just as effective. I am so excited to be alive at this time in history!!
We need to re-skill instead of continually seeking technofixes like this.
Yes, we need to unplug from the technocracy, bury the corporate beast, get back to creating our own culture and society, doing real work, and living debt free.
@@wordup897 real work, real values, stop outsourcing our responsibility to fuckwits that have none
@@callemdavies8992 No responsibility, no liability, no ethics or morals. We need to figure out how to permanently quarantine the psychotic parasites that always worm their way to the top.
In my own life, I'm working by the maxim of only focusing on what I DO want to create. So : fuck 'em. They don't exist. Let's cut out the middleman and ignore their world. Find like minded people. Build. It's by no means a new concept, but as far as I'm concerned their rules don't exist anymore.
@@callemdavies8992 I am 100pc with you and doing the same. I have some plans laid out, looking for like minded people to work with but they are hard to come by. I'm in MI, how about you?
I think offsite manufacturing just makes a whole lot more sense
well that, and skyscrapers built with climbing formworks, where you kinda get the '3D printing' advantages and the mass production advantages anyway if you're just doing the same thing every floor, and then repeating it a few more times on the other towers to make an entire apartment complex
This 50,s tech was a great resource used for the multiple moon and Mars bases built in the early 70's.
Pleasantly surprised by the video. The most realistic, objective presentation I've seen on this technology, which so far has zero appeal or charm for me. Not optimistic, and definitely not yet a fan. Without reinforcing steel, how much lasting integrity can these walls possibly have? And the aggregate, if you can legitimately call it that, is tiny. Is this actually even concrete, or just mortar?
I wish they build for lower income families homes it would definitely help with living cost here in the United States.🏗🏡🤔
Either smooth out the layered look during construction by adding a rolling pin to the side of the printing head, or fill up the unevenness with whatever other material you want once the building is done. If the only hang-up is cosmetic, I don't understand why there is a problem.
legit got stoked for this video, i wanted a 3d printed house early this year and couldn't find a company to get one in Florida so i had to get a conventional home instead.
all the homes here are concrete anyway for hurricanes so i thought 3d concrete would be cool and unique. HURRY UP WITH THE ADVANCEMENTS!!
The fact that the biggest reason these can't get off the ground is people "not liking how it looks" kinda pisses me off. Considering how most millennials and zoomers have resigned themselves to being lifelong renters, tend to look upon things like tiny houses and nomadic lifestyles favorably, and tend NOT to make up the larger contingent of investors and corporate decision makers, I'm inclined to believe it's that same selfish ass, annoying ass generation that just won't go away who is shooting these down "because aesthetics".
Especially the most lauded architects today seem to be permanently stuck in the building block phase kids go through age 3-5 and any form of ornamental addition is heavily frowned on.
That starts with smartphones, calling an brick with rounded edges "design" says it all
Yeah, literally there are so many people that need just, a fucking place to live, and because of this / rich people being selfish (as usual), these houses aren't being created en-mass, probably because they aren't profitable, if we mass produce cheap ass homes then no one will be buying our stupidly expensive 2 story conventionally produced houses that cost an absurd amount of money, way more than the vast majority of people will ever make in a lifetime.
Because eventually 3d printed houses could be accepted as the norm, and people wouldn't have preconceived notions of what a "proper" house is. And because you couldn't possibly charge the absurd amount of money in the millions that are charged for conventional homes, they would go out of popularity and the housing bubble might burst again. That's my fringe, conspiracist theory anyway.
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Problem is the people who decide what the average person "wants to have"
3d printed houses are basical with in the limits the construction put onto them very freeform, very individual "make your own idea come true"
The problem i see is that traditional companies will not like that because it could mean less money if people suddenly start designing there own houses instead taking one "of the shelf".
You suddenly have only the buyer, an architect to make sure building standards apply and the 3d printing company... that leaves the companies specialised in building components out to dry.
It simply is too expensive. If the houses would cost half of what similar houses build with blocks would cost, it would be a no brainer…
@@gurgelplus8978 to be fair the technology is in its infancy, right now everything is prototype
i wanna have a round house.
So much beter and easier on the eyes and overal well-being.
No more harsh lines and pointy corners.
Back to nature shapes.
just watch out for that helmholtz resonance
Honestly that “Burrough” is pretty nice I’d live in it
What they should print, is maybe the foundation.
They do a 3d scan of the site and the computer generate a layout on how to put down the foundation.
Concerning the looks of the 3D printed buildings: why don't they just use giant sandpaper to flatten the walls?
Maybe cheaper but concrete is still not ideal for the environment..
Why not make houses out of hemp?
Another interesting video.Good afternoon Sam & Co! Keep up the great content on both this channel and the B1M.
I love the look. I would definitely embrace it, especially love the wasp nest made of clay.
Doors, trim, windows, plumbing, wiring, laying tile and carpet, lights.....all still need to be done by human tradies.
You've got a million dollar machine doing the job that a few kids with paslodes do in a day anyway.
Not for long
@@AnAnonymousObject on site printing is stupid. Prefab modular will be the future.
Personally, I see 3D printing for construction as a fad.
A lot of these same problems can be solved by building using pre-fab construction. Building an automated assembly line to create pre-fab structures seems more practical
I love this concept and this social proof. Round contours definitely help when it comes to building in a tropical island. Do you have a chart to illustrate the costs per squared meter for buildings up to seven floors? Thank you for sharing it.
In terms of renewable energy... just asking for your opinion on a different concept of my own that is quite basic. The build I have in mind can at least be of 2 ultra strong permanent magnets, one above another where the top magnet stays stationary on a plastic* container filled with water while the other is inside that container. Between the top magnet and the container needs to be a very narrow gap for which a lightweight sheet of lead* can easily slide between the magnets just enough to cause the bottom magnet to fall as if it were a delicate power switch that the rise and fall will help* generate more electrical power than it would take to move the lead* sheet in and out of that gap in least frictionless way, maybe levitated by other magnets. The water is basically to prevent damaging and even far too much noise.
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In summary... it would be as if the permanent magnets can be switched on and off like electro-magnets.
honestly i think this tech is a gimmick, for the netherlands house, what's the point of 3d printing it if it's going to be fabricated in a factory anyway and not on site??
it´s a prototype... soon they will do it on side
@@thetaomega7816 but they don't have to do it on site if they can pre-fab parts, it's always more expensive on site than in a factory under controlled conditions; i don't think you know what you're talking about
@@r3d0c the pre fab itself is more efficiently built then
prefab is cheaper. that's the point.
All 3d printed projects are running into the same problem they look 3d printed, really? Did you actually say that? Your unaware of your own conditioning. What do you think our opinion was when we went from wattle construction with thatched roofs and timber frames to bricks and mortar and slate roof tiles instead ? we seem comfortable now with entire estates looking identical and uniform but was that always the case?. See a constant of one pattern for long enough and anything remotely different stands out like a sore thumb. humans feel comfortable with what's most accepted by the people who's opinion they most respect, its the fear of others not admiring your decisions that creates the issue. that's why we have no issue creating a totally uniform same same copy thy neighbour reality. it fear driven.
the danger is that an awful lot of people who govern their lives in this way often reach a point in their life when they wake up to the reality that everyone around them is comfortable with their decisions except them. The false expectation that others are more right about how you should lead your life also creates the false expectation that where they are leading you is going to be somewhere you love. often this is not the case, this is why people who seem extremely successful also experience depression.
Somehow the process looks so satisfying
I notice that a lot of these projects are in hot and dry areas.
They just wouldn't work where I live. Our temperature swing is -27° to 97° here in Wisconsin.
There also seems to be some issue with room size constraints.
And with the different mixture of concrete used isn't the average home life only 60 years for 3D printed, instead of the typical 120 for wood?
I don't care that much about what a home looks like, as long as it functions well, and is easy to maintain. But I am also on the poor side of annual income.