Chile team builds region's first 3D printed 'seed home'

Record ID: 1850277

  • Title: Chile team builds region's first 3D printed 'seed home'
  • Date: 22nd October 2024
  • Summary: SANTIAGO, CHILE (OCTOBER 17, 2024) (REUTERS) ACADEMIC AT THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIOBIO AND PROJECT DIRECTOR, CLAUDIA MUNOZ, SHOWING 'SEED HOUSE' PROTOTYPE (3D-PRINTED) TO ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS WALL OF SEED HOUSE PROTOTYPE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ACADEMIC AT THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIOBIO AND PROJECT DIRECTOR, CLAUDIA MUNOZ,
  • Embargoed: 5th November 2024 15:25
  • Keywords: 3D Seed House Universidad de BioBio architecture automation innovation printer software
  • Location: CONCEPCION, BIOBIO REGION & SANTIAGO, CHILE
  • City: CONCEPCION, BIOBIO REGION & SANTIAGO, CHILE
  • Country: Chile
  • Topics: South America / Central America,Science
  • Reuters ID: LVA002387122102024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A university team in Chile has built a huge 3D-printed concrete home that they say is Latin America's first such building, using a robot "printer" that pours layers of concrete based on a digital plan controlled by a computer.
    The so-called "seed house" used an Atenea-UBB printer and a KUKA KR120 industrial robot to rapidly create the compact home, pouring layer upon layer of concrete to build the walls in just 29 hours. It then took two days to piece together.
    Casa Semilla, or Seed House, has seven walls made from printed concrete and covers an area of some 30 square meters, said Claudia Munoz, an academic at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Biobio, which this month presented the finished home.
    Rodrigo Garcia, another member of the university's Manufacturing in Construction Group, said the technology could help change how construction was done, using flexible building models, even if there's plenty left to be proven about cost and reliability.
    The house was put up in the Torreones neighborhood of Concepcion on land belonging to a private construction company, which got involved with the project. The concept could, if successful, spur thinking about the construction sector.
    (Production: Nicolas Cortes, Gloria Lopez)
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