BigDelta 3D Printer Can Build an Entire House Out of Clay

Considered the world’s largest 3D printer, BigDelta can build an entire house out of clay. The perfect eco-friendly, low-cost solution to combat society’s problem with homelessness.

Installing spikes to keep homeless people away from certain city-areas isn’t a rational solution. In fact, it’s as stupid as it gets. We aren’t living in a cartoon were villains have wacky catch-phrases and even wackier plans to take over the world.

We are real human beings that need to treat one another with the respect we deserve.

The BigDelta 3D printer has been unveiled by the Italian collective called WASP, which stands for World’s Advanced Saving Project. BigDelta can basically create affordable mud huts in one continuous process.

Thanks to 3D printing, we have all the tools at our disposal in order to make things easier for people across the world – whether it is through a variety of prosthetics, heart valves, and now homes for the less fortunate among us.

The BigDelta 3D printer is a humongous machine that uses clay materials to build a house that takes inspiration from traditional architecture. It employs widely-used construction methods, and the 12 meter high machine looks like something from an Asimov book.

United Nations have announced that by 2013 approximately four billion people will require low-cost housing. This means that four billion people will have an income of under $3,000 by 2013. This is a scary thought.

WASP says that these kind of devices, pointing at the BigDelta 3D printer, prove to be a better alternative than the current method of constructing buildings i.e. let’s put a stop to pollution-heavy and high-cost building methods.

The BigDelta 3D printer uses dirt, natural fibers, water, clay and mud to construct a house. This equates to a better environment friendly machine – the consequences of building using cement are dire, and too few people understand this.

Better yet, clay houses don’t require that much maintenance and once set up, they can last for years. Homeowners just need to add a thin layer of clay over the external surface every five years.

It uses the same mechanism as your average 3D printer, but, of course, at a much larger scale. It looks quite imposing with all of those ginormous frames, but WASP notes that it’s lightweight. It’s also easily assembled and it can be ready for transportation in no time.

The BigDelta 3D printer is a revolutionary machine and if it gets the necessary funding, we could very well see the end of homelessness as we know it.

There’s another alternative though. A Chinese company has developed a new process that consists of separately assembling 3D printed parts to make a dwelling. The costs go under $5000.

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Karen Jackson has always been passionate about technology. All the way through high-school she immersed herself in computers and web-design. Her ambitious nature helped her become a pro in Adobe Photoshop only by watching online videos and working with the program herself. This is also the program that she mostly uses in the creation of websites at her work-place. Technological innovation and gadgets that push the boundaries of what we are comfortable with have always fascinated her, so expect to see some weird gadget reviews coming from her.