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The World's First Floating 3D Printed House
The unusual project highlights the construction benefits of 3D printing.
By KRISTIN HOUSER 21 Jun, 2020 05:30 PM
Agroup in the Czech Republic is building a 3D printed house, which, on its own, isn't anything we haven't seen before.
What sets this house apart from the others, though, is its final destination: Prague's Vltava river.
"I dare say it's the first-ever floating 3D printed building in the world," Michal Trpak, the sculptor behind the project, told AFP.
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3D Printing in Construction
The Protozoon will be the first 3D printed house of any kind to be built in the Czech Republic, but 3D printing is gaining favor as a construction medium in other parts of the world for several reasons.
For one, it decreases the need for human labor — Burinka CEO Libor Vosicky said in a press release that building a conventional brick building would've required 65 workers compared to the Protozoon's 25 — which could help address construction worker shortages.
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https://www.freethink.com/articles/3d-printed-house
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https://www.freethink.com/articles/3d-printed-house