Chinese Company Assembles 10 3D-Printed Concrete Houses in a Day for Less Than $5,000 Each

A Shanghai building company recently constructed a small community of partially <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/3d-printed-house/" target="_blank">3D-printed houses</a> in less than a day. Unlike <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/dus-architects/" target="_blank">DUS Architects'</a> ongoing aims to completely 3D-print a canal house in Amsterdam however, the Chinese company <a href="http://www.yhbm.com/index.aspx" target="_blank">WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co.</a> printed the basic components separately before assembling them on site. Although these concrete houses do not represent 3D printing in its purest form, their construction in such a short time span for just $4,800 each is no less impressive.

Each composite house cost just $4,800 to construct.

A massive 3D printer measuring 490 feet long, 33 feet wide, and 20 feet deep was used to create the concrete house.

WinSun 3D printed each of the structural components from the giant concrete slabs to the inner cross bracing.

To cut down on costs, WinSun fabricated the frame from layers of concrete partly made from recycled construction waste, industrial waste, and glass fibers.

Each house is approximately 2,100 square feet.

WinSun also plans to open 100 recycling factories in the country to continue to transform waste into cost-effective "ink" for their 3D printers.