The world's first district, which was printed on a 3D printer opened

Non-profit organization New Story has opened the world's first district, which was printed on a 3D printer. It is located in a rural area of ​​Tabasco in southeast Mexico.

The company's goal in the area is to build 50 homes for families who live in extreme poverty, often in dangerous and unsustainable temporary shelters. Selected families will receive them at a zero interest rate, and the cost of a mortgage loan will be about 400 Mexican pesos (about $ 20 per month), which they will pay for seven years.

According to hightech.fm, the Icon Vulcan II printer was used for the construction, which squeezes the cement from the nozzle in layers and prints the basic structures of houses. This process takes about 24 hours per house. However, the rest of the structures - roofs, windows and doors - are manually mounted.

“Our 3D printer is designed to work in the face of rural restrictions, but we are faced with a lot of problems,” says New Story. - We had unstable electricity, rains often flooded the way to the construction site. However, this is the only printer designed to address the problem of housing shortages for the poor. ”

The houses have electricity and plumbing. As noted in New Story, they are designed to meet standard safety requirements to ensure homes withstand both local seismic conditions and the test of time.