A boulder-shaped concrete house in the Netherlands has become the first lived-in 3D-printed home in the country after its tenants received the key on April 30.
Located in a suburb of Eindhoven, the single-storey home was built as part of a five-home 3D printing scheme named Project Milestone, and is said to be the first 3D-printed home in Europe where people actually live.
Top: the home forms part of a series of 3D-printed homes. Above: it has a boulder-like appearance
The project was first announced in 2018 with the intention of building the world's first 3D-printed houses to use as rental properties. On April 30, Dutch couple Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers received the keys to their home in Project Milestone.
"I saw the drawing of this house and it was exactly like a fairytale garden," Lutz explained to The Guardian. "It is beautiful." "It has the feel of a bunker ? it feels safe," said Dekkers.
Residential real estate investor Vesteda is the owner of the house, which it rents out to private tenants.
It has an open-plan kitchen-diner
The home was designed by Dutch architects Houben & Van Mierlo and informed by the shape of a boulder.
It has curved, sloped exterior walls and was constructed through printing layers of stacked concrete to form 24 individual components.
These pieces were printed at a nearby printing site and transported to the plot to be assembled, fixed to a foundation and fitted with a roof, windows and doors.
The home was c...