Joining the race of 3D-printed houses is Dutch studio DUS Architects, according to Dezeen.
DUS Architects’ 3D-printed house won’t be the first on earth or on the moon, but will be ‘the first full-size canal house in Amsterdam’.
The canal house will be built along Buiksloter canal, north of Amsterdam city, and will act as a research hub for 3D-printed architecture.
Components for the house would be printed on-site, using the printed called ‘KamerMaker’ (Dutch for “room maker”), which is 3.5-meters high and sits inside a shipping container.
The architects will use polypropylene to print the façade and first floors of the house, but hope to eventually use bioplastics and plastic recycled on-site, according to Dezeen.
“This year, we want to print the entire façade and the first room bit by bit,” Hedwig Heinsman, architect at DUS, told Dezeen. “Then in the following months and years, we will print other rooms.”
Once the first phase of the canal house is done, it will be used as a “welcoming room” while other rooms are being designed and printed.
“We want to build a construction site as an event space. We’ll have the printer there and every print we make will be exhibited. It’s very much about testing and learning,” Heinsman added.
Each room of the canal house will have a theme, based on a specific research topic, and can range from the serious to the experimental (such as “cook room” where researches will 3D printing with potato starch, and “recycle room” where plastic bottles will be reused as printing material).
DUS Architects plans to start printing the canal house in the next six months.
The KamerMaker at work
A round window frame printed with the KamerMaker
[via Dezeen]