ICON announced they’ve completed their first 3D printed home in a new resort development.
The resort is the Canyon Club, located on 60 acres (24ha) on the Colorado river in Texas. The site is described by ICON:
“The Canyon Club is a curated resort community lifestyle with lakefront access, wellness amenities, concierge services, and bespoke design elements tailored to multi-generational living. Set on 60 waterfront acres, it features a collection of 25 traditional plus a collection of 3D-printed homes.”
And one of those 3D printed homes has been completed.
Interior views of the home look quite interesting in the image at top. You can clearly see the rough layer lines from the concrete extrusion process. These could have been covered up with panels, but there’s a certain style created by leaving them in raw form. The one-storey homes are said to be 3400sf (316sm) in size
Here we see a bedroom in the first home. Note that the walls are curving, something you almost never see in a traditionally built home. That’s because curves cost money. With 3DCP, curves cost the same as any other extrusion, so they are easy to incorporate into the design. This makes the home unique.
The plan for these homes is to sell one quarter fractional ownership to buyers, who would then share the home in future years. The site also provides waterfront access to Lake Travis, as well as the nearby club.
The economics of this project are not published, so we don’t know whether the project was less expensive than using traditional construction techniques. However, the design of the structure are quite different from traditional, so does it even make sense to compare the two anyway ?
Via ICON
