A Japanese Startup Is 3D Printing Small Homes With The Same Price Tag As A Car - Yanko Design
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https://youtu.be/vrS9vZoptL8 Nowadays almost everything is being 3D printed, so why should architecture be an exception? Many architectural firms are adopting 3D printing as their preferred technique for building structures. And 3D-printed architecture is slowly but surely gaining a lot of popularity and momentum. And I mean, no wonder, it has a ton of benefits! It’s a simple,

3D home printing has matured enough as a technology to be viable. Yet despite the global housing shortage, chronic to so many countries, has yet to take off. Here the $37,600 price includes finished rooms inside. The company is aiming to build on cheap land in Japan’s smaller cities. They specifically mention targeting remote and work-from-home workers as customers.

This way of doing things could work for 10’s of millions of other people around the world, especially as starter homes. The pandemic accelerated a permanent shift to WFH for many people. If some of them had a choice between never being able to afford a home in big cities, but but getting on the property ladder with this option, it seems obvious to me millions of people around the world would choose it.

  • Arbiter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    10 months ago

    The house isn’t the problem, we’ve solved the cheap construction problem a long time ago.

      • momocchi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        We do, it’s land prices that make houses expensive, not the house itself. The price listed for these homes is not including the land

        • books@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          10 months ago

          How so? I can buy land in my area for 50k, but it’s gonna cost me 450 to build.

          • glimse@lemmy.world
            English
            4·
            10 months ago

            450 in an area where land is 50k is expensive as fuck, have you gotten quotes?

            Lots here is 100-150k and I got a rough estimate of 250-300k for a 4br/2ba with a full basement and 2 car garage

            • books@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              I’ve haven’t but family has. A few builder were looking at roughly 400-450 for a small 1.5k slab home without finishing.

              without outing yourself, where are you located(roughly) I’m always curious if a lot of our high cost comes down to geography/laws/red tape. Im in Northern Minnesota.

              • glimse@lemmy.world
                English
                1·
                10 months ago

                I don’t mind because my living plans changed drastically - I was looking to build 30-45 minutes outside of Chicago. Not a super rich suburb but one with a highly rated school system

      • Pipoca@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Gigantic swaths of exclusive mcmansion-only zoning is a big problem in most cities.

    • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Not really, building a house still produces a hundred tons of waste. This solves that.

    • there1snospoon@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Is the implication here that the cost of building a home doesn’t nearly match what it is sold for?

      I’m curious just how much inflation there is due to supply/demand.