Swiss designer Yves Behar’s high-tech, low-cost solution to social housing aims to leave no man homeless, starting in Latin America.

Fiction writers have had an almost supernatural knack for foretelling the future. In 1995, science fiction author Neal Stephenson prognosticated a world in which the code for nearly anything could be downloaded and printed in his novel The Diamond Age.

Barely a decade later, the advancements in 3D-printing technology sparked a revolution when Dr Anthony Atala performed a medical miracle: Bioprinting the world’s first human organ – a still-functioning bladder – and successfully transplanting it into a young patient at the Boston Children’s Hospital. Seduced by the infinite commercial possibilities, 3D-printing technology continues to disrupt new industries – while growing more sophisticated – by the day.

In the housing and construction sector, Chinese company WinSun pioneered […]

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