You Can Now Build a House for as Little as $5,000
One of the biggest challenges of owning a home today is the soaring real estate prices, especially in major cities and large urban areas. Unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars, finding a property you can call home can be pretty challenging. But did you know that a private Chinese firm has devised an innovative way for people to own a house for as low as $5,000AUD?
3D printed house
China-based WinSun recently built ten full-sized, single-storey houses using 3D printers. They used the printers to spray a mixture of construction waste and recycled cement to build the walls of the homes, layer by layer.
Unlike the traditional methods used in constructing a house, the process neither involved manual labour nor expensive building materials. As a result, WinSun could build the houses for less than $5,000 each. What’s more, the building process was a quick and hassle-free affair. Believe it or not, the company could build 10 houses in one day.
This might be the solution many aspiring homeowners are looking for. If they can build a house for $5,000 using this technology, they only need to worry about land prices. In addition, aspiring homeowners don’t have to wait that long for their new home to be finished.
There is a question – what next? I believe 3D-printed homes should not raise concerns because skilled builders might move over to sustainable green projects, so everybody wins!
[Images courtesy of www.theguardian.com; House design and construction system© WinSun China]