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ICON develops 3D printer to build enclosed multi-storey structures

March 12, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Texas-based ICON has unveiled Phoenix, a robotic-arm-mounted 3D printer that can create fully-enclosed, multi-storey structures from a low-carbon mixture, at SXSW. ICON revealed the demountable crane-based 3D printer during a talk held as part of the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Phoenix allows ICON to construct multi-storey houses with enclosed systems. It said that it

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ICON develops 3D printer to build enclosed multi-storey structures

March 12, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Texas-based ICON has unveiled Phoenix, a robotic-arm-mounted 3D printer that can create fully-enclosed, multi-storey structures from a low-carbon mixture, at SXSW. ICON revealed the demountable crane-based 3D printer during a talk held as part of the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Phoenix allows ICON to construct multi-storey houses with enclosed systems. It said that it

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“Give me a team of bricklayers over a 3D printer every time” says commenter

July 26, 2023 Kate McCusker 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the first 3D-printed house to be completed at  the “largest-scale development of 3D-printed homes in the world”. Co-designed by Danish architecture studio BIG and American 3D-printing firm ICON, the full-sized model home is one of 100 houses that are currently being constructed by local firm Lennar. The house,

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BIG and ICON complete first 3D-printed house in Texas neighbourhood

July 21, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Danish architecture studio BIG and American 3D-printing firm ICON have completed a full-sized model home at what is planned to be the “largest-scale development of 3D-printed homes in the world”. The house is the first to be completed at Wolf Ranch, a neighbourhood in Georgetown, Texas, near the capital city of Austin. Co-designed by Bjarke

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BIG and ICON design 3D-printed campground hotel in Marfa

March 8, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Danish studio BIG and 3D-construction firm ICON are designing a desert campground and housing project called El Cosmico for hotelier Liz Lambert, in Marfa, Texas. The project for Lambert will cover more than 60 acres in the west Texas town and consist of lodging for the hotel with amenities as well as permanent housing. Using

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ICON to develop habitats and roads on the moon for NASA

December 6, 2022 Alice Finney 0

Construction company ICON has been chosen to develop the first lunar building technologies for NASA as part of its Project Olympus program, which will see 3D-printed infrastructure built on the moon’s surface. The contract builds upon the funding for Project Olympus that ICON and architecture studio BIG were awarded in 2020, which aims to develop a

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Construction commences on BIG and ICON’s community of 3D-printed homes in Texas

November 11, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Construction is underway on a community of 100 3D-printed homes in Texas co-designed by Danish architecture studio BIG and American construction technology company ICON. Sited in Georgetown – a municipality outside of Austin – the project aims to be the largest community in the world built using 3D printing technology. Nicknamed Wolf Ranch, the community

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