“The material reminds us of wattle and daub, a home building material harking back 6,000 years”
From our friends over at Tom’s Hardware comes this news of a 3D printed house – not from cement – but from soil.
From a mixture of earth, slaked lime, and natural fibers, Japanese company Lib Work has created a mixture that can be used to print houses and maintain an earthquake resistance rating.
Further, the impact on emissions is significant.
“The Lib Work figures show that building a typical house of this stature might cause about 45,000kg of CO2 emissions. This figure is reduced by more than half, to 22,434kg of CO2, when using the new 3D printing construction tech and sustainable materials. That’s even better than a ‘wooden house,’ it goes on to claim.”
Even better that it could lower the cost of 3D printed homes even more, and possibly allow homes to be fabricated where cement might be hard to come by or extraordinarily expensive.
Super cool.
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