By: Stephen Lauer
The
Canal House is one building that is currently being designed and built is in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, by DUS Architects is completely 3D printed. DUS
Architects are working on a series of houses called “Canal Houses” which all
will be 3D printed when they are completed. They have designed the house to be
printed in 13 separate pieces and then assembled. Each component is a room of
the house and when put together, it becomes a fully functional house. The figure
below shows each component of the house. Each component is a room of the house
and explained by the figure: entry space (1), toilet (2), study (3), living
room (4), dining room (5), kitchen (6), office (7), meeting (8), bedroom (9),
mini kitchen (10), guest bedroom (11), bathroom (12), and a small “garden” room
(13).[1]
This tall and slender design is programmed and designed this way because the
buildings are a part of a larger master plan to include multiple houses along
the canal to house as many people as possible. Each space is also much smaller
than the typical American house and also fits a lot of different programmed
spaces into a relatively small amount of space. Currently the canal house is a
research design project; DUS is using each programmed space to test out new
methods and materials. They currently do not have a built house but instead are
using each new prototype as a “museum” of their work to show off each new
method and material. The issue with printing a building in this way (printing
each room as a piece) is that it restricts the sizes of each room and thus
limiting the overall size of the building but it does work very well for
smaller homes and structures. 3D printed structures are becoming a reality due
to advancements in recent technology and are pushing our industry to build new
things using this technology. This also allows us to build certain things much
easier than current methods and allows us to do things that would otherwise be
impossible with conventional methods.
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