Designer Yves Béhar is collaborating with ICON and New Story to build an entire 3D printed community of houses for low-income and rural workers — in an undisclosed city in Latin America — to help bring them out of poverty and ensure them housing security.

Yves Béhar, designer for Fuseproject , is teaming up with ICON (an Austin-based construction technologies company) and New Story (a non-profit organization) to build a 3D printed cluster of houses — in just a 24-hour period — in rural and low income areas.

The city where this project is to take place hasn’t been communicated yet. This initiative targets specifically local farmers and low-income families as it will ensure them with affordable housing. The houses that are in the works have been designed in a way to withstand environmental hazards. For example; a slanted roof will be built to cope with heavy rainfalls and […]

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