Google+ post by Michael Williams on 2014-04-05 16:46:45 UTC

fast!!
http://gizmodo.com/how-a-chinese-company-3d-printed-ten-houses-in-a-single-1557613229

Well, no cables, no pipes, … .
What’s the advantage to casting 20 standard concrete blocks in the same time?

Looks more like a shed than a home. I’m just wondering how water tight the joints are

If you were homeless, you wouldn’t be able to pay the electric to run a shed-sized motion platform for a tenth of a day.

Also, building low tech houses is already cheap. Putting them someplace isn’t.

For all that I’m cynical by nature. This is an idea that needs to be defended. Being able to custom prefabricate a concrete slab with a hollow internal matrix is a huge leap forward in construction technology. It just couldn’t be done without massive cost a few years back. I can’t see how people don’t see the potential applications for this.