Printing a home

3D printing may open up new, unforeseen solutions but will it be truly revolutionary?

The idiom “brick by brick” may become outdated and replaced by “layer by layer” in years to come. With several countries, companies, and entrepreneurs successfully experimenting with construction 3D printing, the housing industry appears poised for a sea change.
 
TVASTA Manufacturing Solutions, a start-up run by alumni of IIT Madras, recently unveiled India’s first 3D printed house — a single storey building with functional space of about 600 sq ft, comprising a bedroom, hall, and kitchen. It used the “concrete 3D printing” technique.
 
The house, on the campus of IIT Madras, was virtually inaugurated by Finance Minister Nirmala