Can high-tech imagination-tickling 3-D house-printing out-wrestle factory-based cookie-cutter modular homes and solve international housing affordable housing crises?
Straight from the 3-D horse’s mouth (a 3-D printing mag), the answer is no! But then it cannot award a win to modular homes either, because the world’s housing crises have been created by the financialization of housing, not rising construction costs.
3DPRINT.COM goes further, however. It concedes relative affordability victory to the efficiency of the cookie-cutter technology used in factory-based housing construction. That will certainly come as a blow to futurists attracted to the clever idea of “printing” a home.
Not all is lost, however. The “one-off” capabilities of a 3-D home printer are far more flexible and affordable than re-tooling an entire factory to produce a single unique dwelling.
Where might uniqueness fit into the affordable housing scheme of things? Read more in 3DPRINT.COM: De-Hyper: Are 3D Printed Homes the Answer to the Housing Crisis? Probably Not.
