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February 16, 2013 03:52 am GMT

3D-Printed House Can Be Assembled in Just One Day


Just last month, Dutch architects unveiled plans to build the worlds first 3D-printed house out of sand, with a construction time of 18 months. Now British architecture collective Softkill Design has announced that it too is planning to build a 3D-printed house, but it can be printed in three weeks and built in one day.

Rather than sand, the structure, known as the ProtoHouse, will be built out of highly fibrous laser-sinted bioplastic. The company does not see it as a race, they dont even see the Dutch as competition. A member of Softkill Design, Gilles Retsin told Dezeen:

We actually dont even consider that a 3D-printed building because he is 3D-printing formwork and then po…
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