3-D printed Homes?

[Jot the Dot Dot]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/scientech/article-5494965/The-3-000-houses-downloaded-printed-24-hours.html . Of course with anything new, there will be refinements and improvements as time progresses. And I can't see how any of these could be more than one story tall. But still, another example of (hopefully) improving the world one new idea at a time.

 

[Buzz]

Love it! But if they are going to build these for homeless people, where are they going to put them? LOL

 

[Garden Kitty]

I was hearing a news report about this trend recently. According the report I heard, it costs about US $30,000 for a "regular" sized house, plus the costs for land, hooking up to utilities, electric/plumbing etc. They're mainly in demonstration stage in the US for residential housing, but they're supposedly being used in production mode in certain emerging countries,

 

[Jot the Dot Dot]

Again there will be competing ideas and programs to "Build a better mousetrap" to use Emerson's analogy, but let's see what someone can do. Here's two more YouTube segments, one for a Tiny Home, the other for a 'Castle' as a playhouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUdnrtnjT5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5Elbvvr1M