An eco home has been 3D printed from mud for what the team that built it claims is the first time.
Italian 3D printing specialist Wasp has constructed the Tecla (technology and clay) home in the town of Massa Lombarda, near Ravenna in northeast Italy, to a design by Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA), Global Construction Review has reported.
The almost zero-carbon project was built using Crane Wasp, a system that combines two synchronised printer arms simultaneously. Each has a printing area of 50 sq m which, according to Wasp, makes it possible to build a housing module in “a few days”.
The Tecla system can complete a unit in about 200 hours. During this time it can print 350 12mm layers using about 6kW of electricity to power its equipment.
Each home has an area of about 60 sq m, and combines a “living zone” with a kitchen, and a “night zone”, which has a bedroom and the building’s services. The furnishings are partly printed from local earth and integrated into the structure, and are designed to be recycled or reused.
The project, which drew inspiration from novelist Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities, aims to combine materials from the dawn of civilisation with 21st-century technology.
Massimo Moretti, a founder of Wasp, said: “Tecla shows that a beautiful, healthy and sustainable home can be built by a machine.”
Mario Cucinella, the founder of MCA and the School of Sustainability, added that it would be “truly extraordinary to shape the future by transforming this ancient material with the technologies we have available today”.
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This is just getting stupid.
How much electricity was used building this “mud hut” and all the other 3d printed buildings that appear in the news thes days?
This is NOT anywhere near as green as you have been led to think!
How is the mud protected from rain ?