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.
Couple move into Europe s first fully 3D-printed house that took 5 days to build
A couple from the Netherlands have become the first people to move into the first fully 3D-printed house in Europe. The pair are renting the 94-square metre, two bedroom bungalow in Eindhoven for £695 per month
11:22, 3 MAY 2021
A couple have become the first people to move into the first fully 3D-printed house in Europe (Image: PA)
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Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers’ new home is a 94-square meter (1,011-square foot) two-bedroom bungalow that resembles a boulder with windows.
The curving lines of its gray concrete walls look and feel natural. But they are actually at the cutting edge of housing construction technology in the Netherlands and around the world: They were 3D printed at a nearby factory.
“It’s special. It’s a form that’s unusual, and when I saw it for the first time, it reminds me of something you knew when you were young,” Lutz said Friday. She will rent the house with Dekkers for six months for 800 euros ($970) per month.