Takes on Buildings and Cities.
I'm based in Chicago and make videos that explore and explain the built environment. Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads design studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company.
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The thing is that a normal wooden construction house can fly up in like a week in terms of actual working time, if you’re looking at foundation and framing alone (which is what this process seems about equivalent to,) then it’s even faster. The thing that slows down construction is layers upon layers of bureaucracy and general poor time management on the part of organizers or contractors. Yeah, this is faster if you force a comparison to building a brick house by hand, but that’s not how most American homes are built, and these things are going to end up facing more bureaucratic hurdles than normal homes, not less
Just another reason why skyscrapers are dumb.
No rebar, no expansion joints. I say it will crack over and over every year until the whole thing falls apart..
If you’re ganna do 3D printed house why not pre-cast house if you’re going for speed?
just dig a hole for fuck's sake.
The building industry is a massive cartel scam.
7:10 Don't forget reinforcements to comply with building codes in Earthquake areas. How are the layers boded together anyway?
The thing that slows down the building industry is the LAWS! ..the endless list of laws and codes and regulations... and red tape... and laws and codes and regulations... and red tape... and laws and... I'm not sure if any other industry has ever been so strangled by government. (oh, never mind. There are many others).
One of my jobs as a welder was to inspect and correct the product of our robot welder, and I can say it was not a great welder. It had limited use as most of our weldments were not repetitive enough to justify using a robot. I only got about 5 to 8 hours of work a week from the robot. That included inspecting the welds and correcting about 10% of the finished parts. A lot of the errors were for parts that were out of tolerance, and the tolerance was pretty high on these things, ± 1/4" when most of the hand welded stuff was between ± 1/8" and ± 1/16"
I think it makes sense to plaster 3d printed wals to make them look nice.
Chicago is on track to become the next Detroit.
"You can't make openings in wals using just bricks." Ever heard of arches?
Luckily it never ever happens thanks for super greed and stupidity You talking pure garbage too. The machine does not need to be perfectly level and it never will be. What it need is calibration! Sure you could not figure that out, because you have no any idea. It is perfectly fine not to have everything bit off. Software calibration measures certain points and then make adjustments depends on that. Exactly like every CNC works
What none of these guys understand is the STRUCTURE is not the expensive part. Its mechanical, foindation and finishes that cost. Concrete printed houses just make all the other trades harder.
Has there been city design using population growth of other species as a representative. For example, modeling cities off of maybe a something thing a rainforest ecosystem. Both have similar needs and both are highly dense environments that need to accommodate a high amount of population density.
More high-tech snake oil. Back at the turn of the 20th century, Thomas Edison proposed poured concrete houses. He thought that such would lower construction costs. He was wrong. But some were built and still stand today. I think this is what will happen with 3D printed buildings. A few will be built and considered novelties in the future. I think housing of the future will be built primarily out of wood. Some, such as the mobile home I now live in, will be built through automation. Others will be owner built from kits (this also happened during the early 20th century. Before Amazon, there was Sears @ Roebuck). The reason I think wood will be used primarily is because doing so will encourage the growing of vast forests for the raw materials. These forests will soak up a lot of CO2. Almost all of the material used to build my mobile home is recyclable. The wood can rot back to nature, and th aluminum and steel can be melted down at far less cost than the cost to originally extract them.
Politicians can run out of space and wood even in a country like Canada. :) I just dont understand why concrete is more eco friendly than trees. Be grateful, citizen, as your government will print you a cave to live in, hooray :)
repairs are easy if you know some chemistry used back in rome, deep cracks are not an issue.
As you said i think most of the issues raised are manageable and with the direction of companies at the moment ergo downgrading the number of workers on sight due to the cost of having them it may still end up being the future. the reality for workers is grim in the west, with the dangerous combination of globalization, increased automation and the eventual AI domination a western workforce may be a luxury strangely enough we can no longer afford. catch 22. What happens next few know enough to be sure and im certain they are being payed boatloads to predict it. but that's life.
Precast concrete has been around for a long time. Much easier than this
the windows are pretty easy to fit in esp when you have someone smoothing it out on the team making really sweet fits
Sears Tower wins the title for worlds most iconic and beloved building. No one can take that away.
Walls are only a small percentage (and arguably the easiest part ) of the total cost and time of a home__ the so called gains and cost savings are a trade off of "acceptable " finish levels__ one can only imaging how much dust and dirt would settle on all those ledges. To put perspective on this; a polystyrene block, solid concrete cored home would go up in a similar time, but would require plastering inside (or plaster board) and out (which these really need to have done ). Others have blamed regulation, I would agree your manufactured homes go together very efficiently and the modular build industry is proving their worth as well, but regulators do all they can to protect your site built industries/monopolies. The prefabricated wall and floor industries in Europe and elsewhere can stand a similar sized home up in less time and with a much higher standard of finish. "Innovation is great and needs to be encouraged"__ but a Real World perspective is required, this system is fantastic when finished fully, the freedom of shapes are awesome, perfect for expensive one offs but as an answer to affordable housing NO. There was a video of affordable houses being built in Malaysia/Indonesia, solid concrete poured on site in a very clever but simple mold system, the wall finishes from the mold were smooth, even the roofs were concrete slabs__ since they were "wet poured" curves could easily have been incorporated into the molds/design.
What a load of BS.
concrete itself is not that durable, this is going to be a disaster a couple of years down the line. there's a reason we used reinforced concrete in construction people. those little cords that they're using for this isn't going to cut it. companies out here repeating mistakes that had been fixed from over 100 years ago
So explain why they can't have some dude out there smoothing the outside surface of the home while it's being printed if it has extended workability?
Well, now neither are gonna be the tallest, cause Oklahoma City will
It has already failed
Great summary 🙏🏽
Cool video! Interesting to see a new type of construction, and curious to see where it goes in terms of new practices and innovations. As is it definitely seems challenging to work with, especially in a renovation context. That aside, safety razors are the best!! I pay maybe $20 a year max for blades, usually around $10 for 100 blades and you can get them practically anywhere.
I'm amazed! I thought the arch existed.
What about Dome Homes? Cheap. Easy. Fast. Lower utility bills.
If you can look into the mud 3d printing happening in Africa. West African mud is very durable for buildings in the dry arid regions and have made some impressive structures on the scale of Roman concrete, but people didn't see the value and genius of it until much later.
Absolutely love Wrigley Field! Makes the baseball experience so much better
People who use FDM printer. So... Its Cura? 😂
We already have 3d building printing... Is called bricks God... This is the most stupid thing ever. While i love the concrete look... there is no way a building made interely from concrete will ever be more enviromentaly friendly than bricks.
It just doesn't solve anything. You still have to plumb, route, finish etc. Prefab makes 10x more sense.
I lived by Wrigley (Wilton / Waveland) from 2003-2005. Hell of an experience that I will always cherish. But when it was time to go, I was ready to go. Dealing with gameday crowds while going to or from work or school during the season got to be a real pain. But damn. Great way to spend my last two years of college. And being there for the ‘03 run was a blast. If only it hadn’t ended so bad.
Would have preferred you answered the title immediately in the first 10 seconds rather than arbitrary tangents
functionally, you are building a house with a sand mix. A wet laid sand mix, has a very short life span and is weaker. And bricks have made arches and lentals for years, yet, 3d printing cannot do that either. 3d printing relies on embedded steel. but also comparing to bricks is silly, since only 14% of new homes use bricks in exterior walls in 2022. And fly ash, has been reduced in current concrete, since it has serious flaws, whereas the blocks made with ash, do not last that long.
3D printing homes may take off in the future once new materials are available and the printers are made more advanced and able to incorporate AI to minimize the number of on sight workers as humanly possible. Until then I would strongly advise anyone to not be investing any money that your not willing to take a substantial loss on. Here is some ways that 3D printing houses could be used to help produce houses faster and cheaper. Simply do away with the walls being printed out 1 layer at a time and simply start each house on a concrete slab and use preformed molds that are modular. Have the 3D printers robotic arm fitted with jaws that could put each section of the forms up that lock into each other and once in place take the jaws off and then pump the forms that are standing full of the same material that they print the house layer by layer with. This way you can have 90 degree angles and a much smoother surface finish and a guaranteed more consistent window and door opening sizes. This could and possibly would be just as cost effective as 3D printing and done with the exact number of people on sight not to mention the fact that it would possibly be qwuicker because 3D printing can only go so fast because of curing time needed to allow the lower layers to firm up before more layers can be put on top so that it doesn't start to sag. When using forms they will hold the material in place allowing the printer to move faster and possibly opening doors to more types of materials to be used
Spot on.
I do not understand the point of these things. Surely it's easier to transport prefab panels than it is to set up all that equipment. Even setting up insulating concrete forms is faster than this and it includes both insulation and finishing attachment points in the wall.
How would it not be hard to to have the novel smooth the edge out
Some robot brick layers exists
Some robot brick layers exists
What about reinforcement? There's no rebar in any of these printed walls.
My company, a large multinational, is devoted to "light and sustainable". This is much better than 3D printed, IMO. Construction from carefully crafted parts made in a carefully engineered and controlled environment has a much better chance of success then something created on a job site. Near my home I watched a new hotel constructed, a Home 2 branded building (Hilton). Each room was trucked in and lifted by crane and placed into the frame. The entire room was complete, wired, plummed, furnished and finished somewhere else. As they were installed, they were tired into utilities. The construction was rapid, the whole project appeared less than six months at the site. Somewhere else, there are people who go to work to construct these rooms. This modular construction was done very well. The first time I stayed in a Home 2 a few years ago i noticed the shape, long and skinny. I said to my wife, "it feels like we are staying in the back of semi!". We'll it turns out that was true.
Bro I am going to kill my self. Why did all companies just become cheap Chinese garbage that is not original or nice looking in any way and I guarantee that it will age horribly like every other concrete building in America currently. It is forgettable ugly and will probably be collapsing in on it self in 10 years
By far the worst product ever. Everyone knows those look like hell and should probably stop before anyone loses more money.