Europe’s first 3D-printed concrete house and the world’s first commercial residential project in the city of Eindhoven have received their first tenants. With Project Milestone, the city of Eindhoven wants to pave the way for the large-scale construction of 3D houses that are equipped with all modern conveniences. The one-story house with three rooms extends over 1,000 square meters and has a wooden roof. It is shaped like a boulder and surrounded by greenery and open spaces on each side. Four more houses are to be completed as part of the milestone project at the site developed as a “sculpture garden”.
According to the information on the project website, these houses should be inhabited for at least several decades. The builders say that the 3D printing technology gives them freedom while the traditional concrete structure was very rigid. They say that one of the advantages of a 3D concrete printer is that concrete can only be placed where it is needed, reducing waste and CO2 emissions from more cement usage.
With 3D concrete printing, builders can also design very fine concrete structures. Another advantage of this technology is that builders can respond to individual customer requests without increasing construction costs. For this project, the builders said, the 3D technology helped them blend the houses naturally with the wooden environment, as if they had always been in this wooded oasis.
Work on the project started during the Dutch Design Week 2016, when the municipality of Eindhoven and the TU Eindhoven expressed their intention to build these houses. The business world joined in 2017 and now the first residents have moved into the first house.
The components of the first house were printed at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the fifth house, a two-story building, is being printed on site.
A few days ago, India also received its first 3D printed house in Chennai. The single story house is 600 square meters and was built using local 3D concrete printing technology.
The team that built the house said they printed the structure using a specialty concrete they developed for printing large 3D structures. They said the mix is based on ordinary portland cement, which has a lower water to cement ratio. The use of such local materials would also reduce the need to transport concrete over long distances, thereby reducing the environmental impact.
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