In March of last year,Ari gave an in-depth reviewof the 3D Print Canal House, what is projected to be the “first” 3D printed house. At that point in time, the architects of Dutch firm DAS had built the printer, titled KamerMaker XL (Dutch for “room maker”), and were in the process of printing 1:20 scale parts the building. Less than a year has passed and DAS is moving onto the big show, the actual 3D printing of the components for the “first” 3D printed house.
KamerMaker XL, a 3.5 m tall FFF printer, made its way to the Buiksloter Canal in Amsterdam on January 6, where it’s already begun printing. The printer, more or less a large RepRap housed in a shipping container, is using a type of plastic — an 80% bio-based hotmelt, developed by German chemical companyHenkel— to print pieces that will be assembled into a complete house. The项目网站描述该过程：
每个房间都在现场分开印刷，然后组装成一所房子。这样，可以以安全，易于访问的方式仔细地对房间进行仔细测试。每个房间都不同，由复杂和型号的建筑和独特的设计功能组成。该结构是脚本的，这创造了其适当的强度，但也可以生成装饰品，并允许新型的智能功能，例如成角度的阴影脚本脚本到精确的太阳角度。每个印刷的房间由几个部分组成，它们以大型乐高积木的形式连接在一起。两种外侧作为内部的外侧，都在一个元素中立即打印出来。3D印刷墙内是用于连接构造，电缆，管道，通信技术，布线等的备件。
房间本身在结构上是合理的。在项目的第二阶段中，单独的房间组装成连接的地板，然后堆叠到整个房屋中。额外的优势是，如果需要重新安置房屋，则房间很容易断开连接。
达斯已经证明对象的规模that they can print, including the enormous 3D printed bench pictured below. The printing of the home and its assembly by construction company Heijmans is projected to take about three years. That givesother groupsalso racing to complete the “first” 3D printed building some time to enact a more efficient house printing process.
Because the site of 3D Print Canal House will also act as a space for research into architecture and additive construction, each room of the home will be dedicated to different research areas. One research area is into the use of smart data for efficiency purposes: “3D打印运河房屋will have a smart ‘data fireplace’ at the heart of the house. It distributes all resources such as water, energy and smart domotica and connects all rooms. As normally you can’t see data, the ‘smart data fireplace’ visualizes in a poetic manner the energy & data usage in the house…Research topics are: How can we print with conducting material? How can we integrate sensors in digitally fabricated design?”
The larger aim of the project is to meet the housing needs of the 7 billion people on the planet, DUS architect Hans Vermeulen explains in the video below. Vermeulen seeks to address the sub-standard shelter for the world’s poor that has developed in megacities across the globe. Though the firm doesn’t ultimately wish to use plastic for the construction of buildings, the architect points out that “这并不是说我们认为每个人都应该住在塑料屋中，哈哈。目前有效的材料。”
3D打印运河房屋从DUS Architects在Vimeo.
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