By Sun Joo Kim
In a forest north of Copenhagen, Danish architects Frederik Agdrup and Nicholas Bjorndal of Eentileen used just a computer, a printer and 820 sheets of plywood to build a 125 square meter (1,345 square foot) home in four weeks. Named Villa Asserbo, the home is the pilot project of Eentileen’s Print a House project. The designers are touting the process of mass-customizing houses and responsibly producing them on site.
Matthew Stock’s video report for Reuters presents the first Danish digitally fabricated house, and what its designers hope will be the house of the future.
Eentileen’s Print a House process begins as a 3D model which is translated into a manufacturing template and sent to a printer, i.e. a CNC machine. The CNC machine, a computerized milling machine, then cuts sheets of plywood into pieces that can be slotted and fitted together. The architects developed their method to maximize efficiency, minimize environmental impact, and reduce construction errors in the building process. Agdrup and Bjorndal say that their Print a House method allows a house to be built by two people without heavy machinery.
Several aspects of the project minimize its environmental impact:
In the video, Anders Thomsen from Denmark’s Technological Institute calls the concept revolutionary and the project’s application global:
Are these quasi-prefabricated homes really the home of the future?
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Via: ArchDaily, Archinect
Images: UPM, Diagram by Larry Sass
In a forest north of Copenhagen, Danish architects Frederik Agdrup and Nicholas Bjorndal of Eentileen used just a computer, a printer and 820 sheets of plywood to build a 125 square meter (1,345 square foot) home in four weeks. Named Villa Asserbo, the home is the pilot project of Eentileen’s Print a House project. The designers are touting the process of mass-customizing houses and responsibly producing them on site.
Matthew Stock’s video report for Reuters presents the first Danish digitally fabricated house, and what its designers hope will be the house of the future.
Eentileen’s Print a House process begins as a 3D model which is translated into a manufacturing template and sent to a printer, i.e. a CNC machine. The CNC machine, a computerized milling machine, then cuts sheets of plywood into pieces that can be slotted and fitted together. The architects developed their method to maximize efficiency, minimize environmental impact, and reduce construction errors in the building process. Agdrup and Bjorndal say that their Print a House method allows a house to be built by two people without heavy machinery.
Several aspects of the project minimize its environmental impact:
- The project uses no concrete
- Wood is the only wall material used, with the exception of glass windows
- The wood is PEFC certified from sustainable forests in Finland
- The CNC-machine wastes very little material
- Structural steel is minimal
- The structure touches the ground only at its screw pile foundations
In the video, Anders Thomsen from Denmark’s Technological Institute calls the concept revolutionary and the project’s application global:
“And the reason why is that you have every information: design, interface, everything in a digital platform. And you can just deliver that file to Norway, to China, to the countries that you want to export this concept to - and they can adjust it to the market there.”As long as they have the raw materials, the computer equipment, and the printer.
Are these quasi-prefabricated homes really the home of the future?
Related on SmartPlanet:
WikiHouse: An open source home design and build kit
Pricey pitfall of prefab homes
Firm turns shipping pallets into transitional homes for refugees
Via: ArchDaily, Archinect
Images: UPM, Diagram by Larry Sass
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