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Σάββατο 17 Μαρτίου 2018

Vulcan, ο τρισδιάστατος εκτυπωτής που τυπώνει το σπίτι σας με μόλις 4.000 δολάρια

Πλέον μπορούμε να τυπώνουμε με 3D printers πρακτικά τα πάντα, αν και δεν έχουν όλοι κοινωνικά και ανθρωπιστικά κριτήρια κατά νου.
Ως το πρώτο του είδους του, το Icon 3D-Printed House γεννήθηκε από την ανάγκη κάποιων να παρέχουν στέγη σε ένα 1 δισ. ανθρώπων που δεν έχουν μόνιμη κατοικία.
Ήταν μια κοινή προσπάθεια της ICON με τον μη κυβερνητικό οργανισμό New Story που τα έκανε όλα, έναν φορητό τρισδιάστατο εκτυπωτή δηλαδή (που ονομάζουν Vulcan) που όχι μόνο μπορεί να αποδίδει 75 τετραγωνικά μέτρα σε λιγότερο από 24 ώρες, αλλά και να το κάνει σε κλάσματα του παραδοσιακού κόστους. Κάπου 4.000 δολάρια στοιχίζει ένα έτοιμο σπίτι από τα χεράκια του Vulcan.
Το σπίτι παρουσιάστηκε πολύ πρόσφατα, τον Μάρτιο του 2018, στο Όστιν του Τέξας και ο εκτυπωτής συσκευάζεται πια με προορισμό τον αναπτυσσόμενο κόσμο. Και δεν θα παρέχει απλώς στέγαση σε όσους δεν έχουν, αλλά και θέσεις εργασίας σε τοπικό επίπεδο.Incredible houses printed from cement could help help to end the global housing crisis, according to the company behind their creation. The properties, which are currently at the concept stage, will soon be used to provide safe shelter for people in El Salvador, and could one day be expanded worldwide to house billions
Austin-based startup Icon unveiled the its single-story 650-square-foot (60 sq m) house, which can be printed out of cement in just 12 to 24 hours, at the SXSW festival. The model unveiled at SXSW has a living room, bathroom, bedroom, and a curved porch. The roof is the only part that is not 3D-printedThe firm has teamed up with New Story, a nonprofit that invests in international housing, and plans to build around 100 new homes in El Salvador within the next 18 months. New Story previously worked to build low-cost houses in Haiti, where other construction efforts failed after the 2010 earthquake Icon first creates a schematic, which is then fed into a computer that instructs the printer how and where to place the cement. The test home was built in the backyard of a converted house used as office space by IconStaff plan to use it as an office, where they will tweak the design based on their experience of spending long periods of time in the spaceOnce testing of the design has been completed, Icon will move the Vulcan printer to El Salvador to start building work on its new planned community. The process is designed to minimise labour costs and waste materials.First invented in the 1980s by Chuck Hull, an engineer and physicist, 3D printing technology ¿ also called additive manufacturing ¿ is the process of making an object by depositing material, one layer at a time'There are a few other companies that have printed homes and structures,' Jason Ballard, one of Icon's three founders, told The Verge , 'but they are printed in a warehouse, or they look like Yoda huts. For this venture to succeed, they have to be the best houses.'Icon aims to provide the printer, which they believe will be able to produce at least 1,000 homes, for less than £72,000 ($100,000). New Story says Vulcan cost just under £180,000 ($250,000) to research and developSimilarly to how an inkjet printer adds individual dots of ink to form an image, a 3D printer adds material where it is needed, based on a digital fileThe company's Vulcan printer is used to create the properties, which can be built as large as 800 sq ft (75 sq ft) - around twice as large as the average 'tiny house' and comparable to one-bedroom apartment sizes in cities like New York and LondonIn a written statement, a spokesman for the firm said: 'While recent decades have brought major advances in personal technology, construction practices remain relatively unchanged since the 1950s. Icon aims to change this, ushering in a new era in construction to meet the needs of the future'

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