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Icon says the 100-home project in Georgetown will be the first large-scale 3D-printed housing development in the United States.
As with any desktop 3D printer, the Vulcan printer pipes layer by layer to build an object – except this printer is more than 45 feet (13.7 m) wide, weighs 4.75 tons and prints residential homes.
Austin-based Icon has made quite a name for itself in the budding 3D printing construction industry. In 2022, the company unveiled a 2,000-square-foot luxury home with printed walls in Austin.
Each 3D-printed home is a single-story 650-square-foot structure built using a concrete-extruding printing apparatus called the Vulcan II, developed in partnership with ICON. [6] [7] The homes each take 24 hours to build, and cost $4,000, a fraction of traditional construction costs. Printing homes also provides "design freedom" in that ...
The 90 to 200m 2 3D printed homes take around five to seven days to print, compared to a timber frame which would take up to 16 weeks in the same area. [22] ICON also completed a project in March 2020 for seven 3D-printed homes in Austin, Texas. Each 400 ft 2 home was printed in just 27 hours using ICON's Vulcan printer. The first residents ...
The printer won’t displace traditional home construction, but in the future 3D printed homes are likely to comprise a larger share of the world’s housing stock, he predicts.
The Tecla as of 2021. The Tecla house is a prototype 3D-printed eco residential building made out of clay.The first model was designed by the Italian architecture studio Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) and engineered and built by Italian 3D printing specialists WASP by April 2021, becoming the world's first house 3D-printed entirely from a mixture made from mainly local earth and water.
The first of East 17th Street Residences' four homes was listed at $450,000 in March, but sold within days. Two homes are still for sale.