#eco :: Wasp: 3D Printed Houses: youtu.be/aQWSRpacNzY – A new Italian company is demonstrating a super-tall, portable machine that will bring 3D-printed dwellings to impoverished countries. WASP 3D printer creates hyper-local affordable housing out of mud | TreeHugger (article) – The phrase building with earth conjures up images of getting ones hands into mud, creating habitable forms of cob, adobe, earth-bricks or perhaps rammed earth or earthbags, or even an earthship. But the next generation of earth buildings may not be formed by hand, rather, they may someday be printed by machine. Based out of Italy and recently debuting their latest development -- a 3D printer that squirts out mud -- at Romes Maker Faire, WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project) may be the future of housing in many parts of the world where earth is the most abundant, and affordable, local building material around. The aim is to ease the labour-intensive process that building with earth requires, with an automated, digital fabrication process, using one of humanitys oldest building materials... treehugger/green-architecture/wasp-3D-printer-affordable-mud-homes.html
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 06:05:57 +0000