Coolhunt 3 HM – Building your house in a few hours
A lot of people live in cities and they all want their own home. There are still a lot of new houses being built while a lot of old crappy houses are empty. The prices of new houses are too high so people are searching for good looking affordable homes.
For building all those houses a lot of raw materials are being used.
In the future the term cradle to cradle will be used more often. Cradle to cradle is the biological cycle. All materials could be used, after their life in one product, in another product.
I found a few signals that will make this possible in the future.
The first one is a concrete eating robot. In the future it will be possible to demolisch concrete walls with water. At this moment the methods for wrecking buildings give a lot of mess and noise.
The Swede, Omer Haciomeroglu, from the Umea Institute of Design thought this could be done easier. He developed the ERO concrete recycling robot. At this moment it is still a concept.
‘The ERO robot uses water to disassemble concrete and then sucks all of the separate components — cement, sand, and aggregate — neatly into different packages for reuse’. ‘High pressure water jets attack the micro cracks on the concrete surface, making it come apart’, explains Omer Haciomeroglu. ‘It leaves the metal rebar inside naked and ready for reuse’.
In the future the robot will be able to recycle everything from the building.
I also found a signal that a bike ‘can turn plastic cups into a 3D printer Ink’ (PSFK).
‘Taiwanese design factory Fabcraft is making creative recycling a little more accessible’ (PSFK). The bike has a workstation that grinds plastic cups into a powder that you can put in a 3D printer.
In the future the different materials that come from the buildings may be perhaps ink for the 3D printer.
The last signal completes the circle.
In Amsterdam they are building a canal house with a 3D printer. Moreover, the construction site also funcions as an exhibition. The idea came from ‘DUS architects’ and the idea behind this project is to make a start at developing ways to make buildings in a fast and efficient manner using recyclable materials.
In China there are also people building 3D printed houses. The company Winsun Decoration can build 10 houses a day. The houses are very small, simple and not pretty. The chinese company will show that 3D printing is very practical and can be used for social purposes.
So in the future we can design our own houses, print them with old materials and when they are done with it they can break it down again and print a new house. That will create a city that is changing every day. But not only in the city they can print houses. It is now also possible to print cheap houses in developing countries, for example in disaster areas or in slumbs.
Why is it cool?
Waste is increasing and the damaging effects on the environment with it. Perhaps even more importantly, we are throwing a lot of valuable materials away. What if these materials can be used as a raw material for other products? And without the risk of losing any quality. So the focus is not on ‘less waste’, but on ‘no waste‘. So in the future all our garbage will be recycled into other products.
Why has it future growth potential?
Trough the overproduction of packages and products, that will be thrown away very quickly, a lot of noxious substances will come free that are bad for the environment. In previous blogs I already mentioned that it will accelerate the global warming and that we will not be able to leave our garbage anywhere. So cradle to cradle ensures that this will be delayed.
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These signals also have an impact on our quality of life.
Within the category ‘Physical wellbeing‘ it has to do with your health. When you produce things, the bad chemicals will cause you getting sick.
In the category material wellbeing the housing quality is one of the things it touches upon. The global warming will cause a lot of natural disasters that can cause insecurity about having your own home afterwards. It has therefore also to do with your ‘Finances/Income’. It could just be that the products and commodities that your work needs aren’t available for a certain time or that your work is hit by a natural disaster. Therefore I also have to think about the categorie ‘Development and activity’. Can you save your work? And is it still possbile to do the things that you like in your free time?
Within the category ‘emotional wellbeing‘, it has to do with fullfillment and status, and in the category social wellbeing with community involvement, because your friends/ family/ relatives could be in trouble trough the global warming.
I hoped that you enjoyed reading this blog!
for more information:
– http://3dprintcanalhouse.com/barack-obama-views-3d-print-canal-house
– http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/concrete-eating-robot-recycles-buildings-140226.htm
– http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028697/this-concrete-eating-robot-can-recycle-an-entire-building-on-the-spot#5
– http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/03/16/kijken-in-amsterdam-wordt-momenteel-een-3d-grachtenpand-uitgeprint/
– http://numrush.nl/2014/04/30/chinees-bedrijf-bouwt-wel-tien-3d-geprinte-huizen-een-dag/
– http://www.psfk.com/2014/04/plastic-cup-recycling-bike.html#!GOPOf
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