3D printed homes anyone? Well! It could have been an outer space fantasy about a decade ago but today we can at least spare it a session of noontime dreaming. Dennis Burger for the website “Technology Tell” writes why the idea is fascinating and at the same time a little impractical (at least with the present resources we have).
Wicked times these really are! Zombies can tee off and people can see their own doppelgangers with little (animated) effort. Why not go ahead with what-is-possible-but-not-practical for a while and dream of 3D printed homes.
What is this noise about?
Let me quickly tell you what 3D printing is. So to define to an audience that already knows about it, 3D printing is giving plastic objects a three dimensional shape to get something real out of a digital model (Happy change for a generation bent on digitising reality).
Practicable 3D printed guns and food are long-shot ideas
Burger writes how 3D printed guns and 3D printed foods are already creating a big hullabaloo. Amazingly, 3D printers have already thrown up chocolate bars and may be not long before you feed in an entire Peter Kuruvita or Andrew Barkham recipe into it and get it-won’t-vanish-when-you-touch food on your plate.
The astronauts won’t mind venturing out longer in space if 3D printed food becomes even a half-reality (solar storms by the day, asteroids by the night and 3D printed a la carte or quick brunch thrown in between)
To come back to the 3D printed homes
So once again, at the risk of being avant garde– 3D printed homes anyone? Burger nips any such ambition in the bud by telling that it may take 2.9 days to print (create) one single brick with the average .255 millimetre detail setting.
To then create overlapping layers of single bricks and pile them in form of a home, you would have to be patient for about 220 years (give or take a few).
You can read the original article here.
You can see the video here.
220 years- whoosh! By then, golf would become a heritage sport, Phoenix would begin to die in peace (for a change) and Amy Meredith would fetch an Australian equivalent of Mount Rushmore for itself. Pretty much in time for the Gen Z3 though, one must add.
To put the lid- 3D printed homes do not fall into an asset class (as yet)…better go for a regular home extension for now.
What would you prefer to print first- your new living room or breakfast?
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