First 3D Printed Concrete Homes Project in the World

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Project Milestone

The Municipality of Eindhoven, TU Eindhoven and the companies Van Wijnen, Vesteda, Saint Gobain-Weber Beamix and Witteveen + Bos are going to realize the first habitable house that will roll straight out of the printer. The house will be the first of five houses of 3D-printed concrete, which will be placed in the Eindhoven new-build neighborhood Meerhoven in the coming years. The 3D printed concrete homes of the project, called Project Milestone, are realized one after the other, while research on technology remains in development.

Project Milestone can rightly be seen as a milestone for many reasons. Not only from the point of view of the technology and the builders, but also from the design, the municipality, the future occupant and the landlord. If the first occupant gets the key at the beginning of 2019, there is a home that meets all the comfort needs. Made sustainably and energy-efficient, but also a comfortable, light and quiet house. In a fantastic natural wooded area.





Disruptive

Ultimately, the project will have five 3D printed concrete homes, with both the printing technology and the design of the house becoming more and more complex. If the ground floor first home is printed off-site, the two-story fifth home will be manufactured entirely on-site. The development of the 3D concrete printing technique will therefore be beautifully perceptible. For the collaborating partners, however, Milestone is emphatically not an experiment. They see development as a major innovation that can be disruptive for the (housing) construction sector. After all, concrete is the most used building material in the world.

The design is not just like a house, the futuristic design has also succeeded in being timeless. The design results from the typical possibilities of the new technique. The 3D printing technique gives shape freedom, where traditional concrete is very rigid in shape. This freedom of form has been used here to make a design with which the houses naturally blend into their wooded surroundings, like boulders. As if the five buildings were abandoned and have always been in this wooded oasis.


Bosrijk

The 3D printed concrete homes will be located in Bosrijk, in the Meerhoven district. Bosrijk is being developed as a 'sculpture garden', with high-quality, ambitious architectural projects placed as sculptures in a continuous landscape. This sculpture garden is not just to look at, but also to enjoy actively. The ultimate Forest Enthusiast is therefore not behind the geraniums in his home, but is an 'urban cowboy' or 'city nomad' who chooses his home as a base for a dynamic life full of work, recreation and nature experience in a particularly scenic environment.

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Two volumes of the coastal home design crown the top of a hill at beach community Playa Misterio in Peru. The “concrete block” accommodates the master bedroom at the top and the social space in its lower levels. The “glass block” includes the children’s space in two levels. The volume between the spaces is occupied by a staircase block that connect the hard appear of exposed concrete to the soft look glass surface provoking light and shadow effects.

Architecture: Longhi Architects

White home, Dallas, Texas, USA

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Architecture and photography: Morrison Seifert Murphy

Openhouse, Hollywood Hills, California

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Architecture: XTEN
Photos: Art Gray Photography

Amazing concrete house design

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Architecture: Eduardo Berlin Razmilic
Photography: Eduardo Berlin & Sebastian Sepulveda

House with swimming pool on roof

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Design: Gabriel Orozco, Tatiana Bilbao, Carlos Leguizamo
Photography: Iwan Baan

Luxury house in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Architecture: Marc Canadell

Little summer house, Gotland, Sweden

The little summer house (Gotland, Sweden) designed as simple as possible. In one space is placed everything you need: a place to sleep, a kitchen in the middle, there is a shower outside. Walls are made of lightweight concrete blocks, and a simple roof structure covered with corrugated steel sheet.

Architecture: DinellJohansson - Morten Johansson
Photography: Elisabeth Toll

Small Simple Stone House, Spain

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Architecture: Enproyecto Arquitectura
Project team: Sergio Garcia-Gasco Lominchar, Jorge Cortes, Borja Garcia

This small simple stone house (Spain) is situated on a hilltop, planted cherry trees, which offers a beautiful view of the surroundings. Design of this home is determined by local building codes that allow the construction of facilities for storing agricultural equipment, with area of no more than 25 sq m and an underground reservoir for water storage. The main space is occupied by living room and kitchen, bedroom is over them. Basement with natural daylight contains bathroom, studio and second bedroom.

Modern concrete home, Madrid, Spain

The modern concrete home situated on the slope oriented to the south not far from Madrid, Spain. Overhanging part of the facade on the front side of the house protects the inner space from the hot sun in summer and allow sunlight to fall inside during winter months.

Architecture: Inaqui Carnicero Alonso-Colmenares

Two bedrooms house, Victoria, Australia

Contemporary two bedrooms house (Victoria, Australia) situated on a narrow city allotment. The house was designed for an Art Gallery director and provide an extra study for visiting artists and private gallery.

Architects: Nervegna Reed Architecture
Photos: John Gollings

Low energy luxury villa, Mallorca, Spain

In this luxury villa project in Mallorca (Spain) have been used such low energy, sustainable and innovative technologies as geothermal, passive cooling, photovoltaic, daylighting, super-insulated and solar water heating.

Architecture: tecDesign, Sebastian Knorr

Rustic natural stone Swiss house, Alps, Switzerland

The rustic natural stone Swiss house situated in rural mountain area of Switzerland, was designed to combine comfort and work on paintings of owner-artist.

Architecture: Lawrence Savioz
Photos: Thomas Jantscher

Unusual house with underground rooms, Leiria, Portugal

The house consists of social area and private area, which include living rooms and bedrooms, respectively. The private patios are used to communicate underground rooms with the environment.

Architecture: Manuel Aires Mateus
Photos: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

Sails concrete house design, Sydney, Australia

Exterior curved walls of the Australian concrete house was designed for windblown sails facade feeling. The house looks more like a white sailboat, if we look at it from the pool. Large facade glazing allows a lot of natural light in.

Architects and photos: Tony Owen Partners

Luxury ocean villa with pool, Phuket, Thailand

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Architects: Original Vision Ltd, Adrian McCarroll, Waiman Cheung, Jamie Jamieson
Photos: Marc Gerritsen. Helicam Asia Aerial Photography

Concrete, glass and wood house, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Architect: BAK Architects (Maria Victoria Besonias, Luciano Kruk)
Photography: Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

Stone House, Switzerland

This stone house in Switzerland is a reaction to modern construction of chaotic overcrowded urban areas. Therefore there are no virtually all the attributes of a classical building.

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Photographs: Hannes Henz

Unusual concrete home, Germany

This unusual concrete home (Germany) is undoubtedly out of this world. Living spaces spreads across four levels, providing privacy but are open to one another.

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Concrete suburban residential house, Alps, Switzerland

Located in the Alps (village of Lumino, Bellinzona, Switzerland) this concrete suburban residential house stands as a monolithic element, echoing and quietly complementing its context. The village area is characterised by stone built traditional houses date back centuries. The new concrete suburban residential house is intended as contemporary interpretation of the vernacular and a relevant response to single construction material of old houses; its exposed concrete form resonates the presence of old stone houses and recalls the revered strength. The house acts as a sort of bastion between the modern residential expansion and the old core.

Architects: Davide Macullo Architects
Photography: Enrico Cano