Satsuki Then - May 3, 2021, 6:16am CDT
A Dutch couple, Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekker have become the first in Europe to move into a fully 3D printed house. The house, which is shaped like a boulder, is the first legally habitable property with loadbearing walls made using 3D printing technology. The house is very high-tech and lacks a traditional key to the front door, with a couple using an app to unlock the door.
The homeowners moved in recently, and Lutz says the home has the feel of a bunker, noting that it feels safe and it’s beautiful. The boulder shape the house was built in would be difficult and expensive to construct via traditional methods. The property is the first of five homes planned by a construction company called Saint-Gobain Weber Beamix for a piece of land by the Beatrix canal in a suburb of Bosrijk called Eindhoven.