At 500 square feet, ICON’s stylish new structure was 3D-printed over the course of several days—but it only took 27 hours of labor to construct. The building will serve as a welcome center at Austin’s new Community First! Village—a 51-acre development that will provide affordable housing to men and women coming out of chronic homelessness.
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Six new 3D-printed homes will be added to the village by the end of this year—and ICON says that they can be built at significantly less cost than conventional homes. ” ICON is pushing the envelope and is technologically laying out a new way of looking at how we build homes,” says Alan Graham, founder and CEO of Mobile Loaves & Fishes , the nonprofit behind the Community First! Village . Garaham’s hope is that ICON will be able to print an entire neighborhood capable of housing roughly 40% of Austin’s homeless population. The […]
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