A house built using a 3D printer in Belgium - Geeko

KampC, the Westerlo provincial center for sustainability and innovation in construction worked on this 3D house project. The printing was managed by the students of the Thomas More school.

Why it's a world first

Houses made from 3D printer is not a first. Here, the project is remarkable because it was printed in one piece. Usually, the parts are printed and then assembled at a given location. This house was therefore built on site, in a single impression.

The printer was installed one morning. She then started her work without human intervention. With 6 to 8 hours of printing per day, it took about two weeks to see this house born.

A model house that is not for sale

"It was a study, a European project," says Piet Wielemans. The project was launched in 2016. KampC looked for collaborators and notably found students or small entrepreneurs who are environmentally friendly. The big institutes on the other hand are turning away from it. For them, this type of project "it does not work, that's in ten or twenty years that there will be something", explains the architect.

But the students are ambitious: “The goal was not the house. From the research, we fantasized with the students to do impressive things. ” These fantasies gave birth to this 3D house, a project that achieves these objectives.

"It is to prove that it is possible or not," explains Piet Wielemans. In Flanders we don't know the system, no one is interested ”, according to him. Two weeks after the launch of the printing, one can imagine that the reactions will be different. "We have succeeded now, everyone knows that it works," concludes the architect.

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