Couple moves into Europe’s first 3D-printed house developers claim can be built in 5 days – World News

A couple have moved into Europe’s first 3D printed house – and the rest could be built in five days.

Elize Lutz, 70, and 67-year-old Harrie Dekkers’ two-bed Eindhoven bungalow is shaped to look like a boulder and is built using a nozzle that squirts out cement like whipped cream.

The Dutch couple became the first to move into the five-home site and say the “bunker-like” dwelling is “beautiful”.

Developers say with fine tuning a house can be built in 120 hours – equivalent to five days – and that the process is far more environmentally friendly and efficient, with the added benefit of relieving pressure on the construction industry in a country with a shortage of skilled brick layers, reports The Guardian.

The bungalow is accessed using a digital key loaded on to an app and was constructed by firm Saint-Gobain Weber Beamixbeside the Beatrix canal in the suburb of Bosrijk.

Imperfections in the facade are down to changes in the nozzle, which form squiggly patterns similar to those you may see with an ink printer.

The couple rent the 94 sq ft space for £695 a month, half what it would usually cost, after applying to be part of the revolutionary project online.

While part-3D printed homes have previously sprung up in France and the US this is the first time a 100% 3D printed and fully habitable property has been completed.

“We’re now setting the tone for the future: the rapid realisation of affordable homes with control over the shape of your own house,” said Yasin Torunoglu, alderman for housing and spatial development for the municipality of Eindhoven.

The first 24-part bungalow was printed off site but by the end of Project Milestone, a partnership between Eindhoven University of Technology and the Vesteda housing corporation, it is hoped all elements will be made on-site.

It was hoped the bungalow would have been finished by 2019 but due to challenges with the design it was delayed.

Bas Huysmans, head of Weber Benelux, an off-shoot of Saint-Gobain, said the rock shape was picked to show how the technology could bring any design to life.

Elize said: “I saw the drawing of this house and it was exactly like a fairytale garden.”