Dutch Architect to "Print" House

3D printers have many uses, one of them being to construct architectural models. But architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars, of Universe Architecture, is planning to build a house with the technology. The "Landscape House" is triangular in plan and resembles a Möbius strip, as floors bend into ceilings, and vice-versa, at each corner.

The house's construction will not use the type of 3D printers that architects use to build study models, though. It will use D-Shape, a "mega scale free-form printer" that creates a stone-like structure from sand and a special inorganic binder. The printer is limited to a cubic area that is six meters on each side, meaning that the house would be assembled from multiple pieces.

The announcement of the project and application of the D-Shape application has generated a substantial amount of buzz. All eyes will be on both parties to see if they can pull it off.