January 6 KamerMaker XL, a 3D printer for printing rooms, was moved to the construction site of the 3D Print Canal House in Amsterdam. The printer is using a type of plastic 80% bio-based hotmelt developed by a German chemical company.
According to DAS who developed the printer “Each room is printed separately on site before being assembled into one house. This way the rooms can be carefully tested in a safe and easy accessible manner. Each room is different and consists of complex and tailormade architecture and unique design features. The structure is scripted and this creates its proper strength but also generates ornament, and allows for new types of smart features, such as angled shading scripted to the exact solar angle. Each printed room consists of several parts, which are joined together as large Lego-like blocks. Both the outside façade as the interior are printed at once, in one element. Within the 3D printed walls are spares for connecting construction, cables, pipes, communication technique, wiring etc.”
Each room is structurally independent of the others. After the rooms are printed, they are assembled into connected floors, and then the floors are stacked to form the entire house. The printing of the home and its assembly is projected to take about three years. The grand opening of the construction site will be on Sunday March 2, 2014 in Amsterdam.
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