This is a designer home by icon and Lake Plateau
. But it's considered designer for a different reason.
It was really designed and created to show the opportunities
and possibilities of designing for 3D printing. Most of
this home is 3D printed, yes, printed in
just two weeks within our system. It's basically the
structure and the material is what we put down by
the printer. So it speeds things up drastically.
Conventional homes need multiple trades from sheathing to framing to
coordinate to construct a project icon's concrete based polymer cuts
down on that. You're able to introduce products as
well as housing faster and more affordably than using traditional
means and methods. Icon can also create different shapes
than typical materials. The reality is that when you
have curved geometries and undulating walls, you do have
additional structural strength and stiffness that's introduced through the system
house zero is a model home, but the company
has planned communities in areas like Georgetown, Texas.
It's working with hotel designer Liz Lambert in Artist Town
Marfa, Texas to expand the El Cosco property and
icon. Also recently built a 3D printed stage at
the Long Center in Austin. Another potential benefit of
3d printing is how it could aid with a four
housing icon's initiative. 99 is challenging architects and students
to complete a 3d home for just$99,000. They're
going to be engaging our technology in a way that
has never really happened before for anyone in this landscape
. And we're going to realize the final designs for
people and communities who need it most. And as
the technology gets better, this could be the way
how our future homes and buildings are built in Austin
, Texas. I'm Michelle Castillo.