3D Printed Home Design Challenge: Team Its Texas Baby

Описание: Over the last several weeks, Overland launched an internal competition to design a prototype for the 3Strands Neighborhood. With ICON’s Vulcan II technology in mind, twelve design teams from Overland were tasked with designing an affordable, single-family home that helps to address the loneliness epidemic by facilitating natural, informal interactions with neighbors and building community. Throughout the process, our design teams considered variables such as site orientation, ecology, energy efficiency, water management, material selection, resilience and adaptability to provide the best design solutions as possible.

TEAM IT'S TEXAS BABY'S VISION: The problem: According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the U.S. has a shortage of 7.2 million homes that are affordable and available to extremely low income households. Nationally, a full-time wage earner at the 40th percentile of the wage distribution (that means 40% of workers earn even less) cannot afford a modest one-bedroom apartment at the average fair market cost without spending more than 30% of their income on housing costs. The need for affordable and available housing is great and not going anywhere. The solution: Fortunately 3D printing may be the very near solution to the affordable housing crisis. Icon is a construction technologies company leading the way into the future of homebuilding by using 3D printing to make major advancements in affordability, building performance, sustainability and customize-ability. 3D printing in concrete brings speed, lack of manual labor, resilient material, nearly zero waste, and tremendous design freedom to the world of affordable housing construction.