Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa October 2016 | Page 37

and equipment during traditional building processes.
Companies around the world are diving into
building 3D printed housing projects, and the
buildings are cropping up seemingly everywhere.
Take this new project for example: a company has 3D
printed a Suzhou-style Chinese courtyard in less than
two months.
Built in Binzhou City, in East China’s Shandong
Province, 3D printing construction company WinSun
built the house fully from a 3D printer, and it comes
with all of the amenities, including air conditioning.
The house was built with a massive printer 150
meters (492) in length, 20 meters (65 ft) in width, and
6 meters (16 ft) in height. The technology wastes little
of the concrete ink it uses, increasing efficiency and
environmental friendliness.
This was built layer-upon-layer, each between
0.6cm and 3cm in thickness. The prior modeling has
allowed the printer to make the walls of the house
hollow, giving planners the freedom to put insulation
or load bearing material into the walls.
On another part of the planet, DUS Architects
3D-printed a tin