{"id":119029,"date":"2021-01-30T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T22:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/3d-printed-house-in-italy-is-made-from-locally-sourced-clay"},"modified":"2021-01-30T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T22:22:21","slug":"3d-printed-house-in-italy-is-made-from-locally-sourced-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/3d-printed-house-in-italy-is-made-from-locally-sourced-clay","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed house in Italy is made from locally-sourced clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-house-in-italy-is-made-from-locally-sourced-clay.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTECLA (an acronym which stands for \u201cTechnology and Clay\u201d) is a habitat consisting of two interconnected housing units, each covered by a semi-spherical dome. The units have been built using multiple Crane Wasp printing units operating simultaneously. Crane WASP is defined by the manufacturer as \u201ca collaborative 3D printing system capable of printing houses\u201d and can print various materials \u2014 such as earth-based materials, concrete mortar, and geopolymers \u2014 with a maximum speed of 300 mm\/s and a maximum printing area of 50 sqm per unit. The design of the habitat features two or more \u201ccocoon-like\u201d housing units, whose shape vaguely resembles that of a sea urchin, in which structure, insulation, and finishes coincide. The thick raw earth walls of the units have a hollow structure consisting of several clay \u201cwaves\u201d, which makes them at the same time relatively lightweight, resistant, and highly insulating. About 200 printing hours are required to build each unit, which consists of 350 clay layers, each 12 mm thick.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Designed by Mario Cucinella and build by WASP, TECLA is a prototype house near Ravenna, Italy, made by 3D-printing a material based on locally-sourced clay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTECLA (an acronym which stands for \u201cTechnology and Clay\u201d) is a habitat consisting of two interconnected housing units, each covered by a semi-spherical dome. The units have been built using multiple Crane Wasp printing units operating simultaneously. Crane WASP is defined by the manufacturer as \u201ca collaborative 3D printing system capable of printing houses\u201d and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}