Didn’t see that coming.
Originally shared by Nick Dotcom
WASP team to 3D print homes in developing countries using clay and soil
Looks like small houses…let’s see how this project “scales”…intentional pun.
Here’s a guy doing similar with printed cement houses. http://youtu.be/SObzNdyRTBs
Reminds me of the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too - I think it needs to be at least … 3 times bigger
@Brendan_Henderson concrete is expensive and a big polluter. Using traditional products that are ready available makes more sense especially after a natural disaster.
Mud and wattle huts ares still built in many third world countries, and most of those countries have cement works too. Communities still build and live in mud huts due to a lack of money to construct concrete dwellings, and building mud huts by hand is a lot cheaper. I struggle to see how 3D printing a mud “house” can be cheaper. If on the other hand the idea is to be used to construct a “garden city” of mud houses …
@Phillip_Katete while the printer builds the house labour can be used for other things like farming etc.
@Nigel_Dickinson - Hut building is NOT a daily event, it is a once in a few years’ (even lifetime) event, so no labour is lost to not farming. But if you think of it that way, then you fail to realise the hopelessness of the situation people who live in mud houses face.
Most communities in this situation actually build mud huts on land that they do not own, thus when they are moved on, they have nothing much to lose and the land owner has little cost in restoring the land to (farming?) whatever use.
@Phillip_Katete really seems your missing the point I made. Disaster zone. Its better than tents and plastic bag homes.
Seems you missed my comment on that.
@Nigel_Dickinson - My bad, I must have missed that point. Still, better than tents …, in what respect, cost, ease of deployment? Lets just say we can use those arguments to encourage further developement of the technology, but their practicality is no where near realistic (let alone devoid of cheaper alternatives).
@Phillip_Katete look at refugee camps were people are in tents for years. When they finally move on demolish them and help bring the land back. After all earth isn’t need to be shipped in only the machine and if it runs on solar and wind energy all to the better.
@Nigel_Dickinson - we are digressing to a degree here, but you are not advocating for creation of more durable refugee camps … My two cents is that refugee camps should NOT exist, and if they did, they should be as temporary and shortlived as can be. Semi permanent (as opposed to temporary) shelter in refugee camps is bound to forment land disputes in the host communities. I am not saying we should wish it away, but rather, tackle the causes of the creation of the camps . To that end, 3D printing “mud houses” does nothing in value addition, and I am sure the residents of the camp would rather beat a haste back to their homes.
@Phillip_Katete this is the real world. Ideology is never going to happen.
@Nigel_Dickinson - I thought the premise of this thread was on the idea of using 3D printed … ooops! Isaid it, the IDEA (as in ideology) … but since you say it is never going to happen, I’ll gladly rest my keyboard. Shame I never managed to get accros to you.
@Phillip_Katete my never happen is the rosey world where wars and disaster never happen.
This tech is ideal for planet colonies.
Using the resources at hand.
@Damien_Lavizzo - the sad truth is that refugee camps do exist, it is also a fact that refugee camps exist in foreign lands (for the refugees), and failure to resolve any refugee crisis results in re-settlement. Re-settlement NEVER happens in the camps where it is proposed to erect the 3D printed “mud houses”. By definition, refugee camps are temporary, and by that you’ll be hard pressed to find a cheaper and more versatile shelter than a tent. By the way, you will not find a single aid agency working in any refugee camp endorsing building semi-permanent (as opposed to temporary) structures in any camp. if this tech can be adopted to say print a latrine on stilts or even a clean water holding tank, then there is a chance it could be deployed NOT in its current form though.
@Phillip_Katete oh dear you’ve now proved you’ve no idea about what refugees go through.
So look up the amount of time a refugee spends on average in a camp use the UN figures.
Look at those freezing in those camps in winter.
You view point and attitude is one of ignorance as you have no clue.
I’m fact I’m sure your just baiting!
Baiting? Take me up and offer this tech with its current solution to MSF (I think they are in most refugee camps around the world). You can even donate the equipement and manpower to operate it and I bet you it will not be deployed to any camp, maybe used somewhere else to generate funds to support their operations. Enough said.
@Phillip_Katete now you’ve proved my point totally. Defection away from your statements and a change of tact. So your saying no organisation can build one even though its open source…go away and research things before spouting lies.
You even think refugees are looked after by one organisation…
Defection … was that me or you? Now who is spouting rubbish? You really are a waste of time but I’ll stick to my assertions until you or anyone can prove otherwise. I have worked in a refugee camp FYI, and though conditions differ in every camp, I base my opinion(s) on my experiences.