A Shanghai company has 3D printed 10 small houses, 200 square metres, costing about $5000.
Website ,www.3ders.org “3D printer and 3D printing news,” reports: “The company behind these 3D printed building, Shanghai WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co, said it has for years been working on developing the system and its materials. The company owns 77 national patents of construction materials, such as glass fiber reinforced gypsum and special glass fiber reinforced cement.”
Most 3-D printers are currently more for hobbies, and cost only a few hundred dollars, but WinSun’s 150(L) x 10(W) x 6.6(H) m gigantic 3D printer can print a building in hours using ‘ink’ based on high-grade cement and glass fiber. Like traditional 3D printers, the system carefully spills out those materials layer by layer, consistently building upward but the houses do still require assembly.
WinSun hopes their 3D printer and technology could offer “affordable and dignified housing” for the impoverished.
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