modern method of construction<\/a> will disrupt the construction industry.<\/p>\nTrichet said: “For 2,000 years there hasn’t been a change in the paradigm of the construction process. We wanted to sweep this whole construction process away.<\/p>\n
“That’s why I’m saying that we’re at the start of a story. We’ve just written, ‘Once upon a time’.”<\/p>\n
The house has been built in a run-down neighbourhood in the north of the town and was partly funded by the council.<\/p>\n
Nordine and Nouria Ramdani, along with their three children, were selected to live there.<\/p>\n
“It’s a big honour to be a part of this project,” says Nordine.<\/p>\n
“We lived in a block of council flats from the 60s, so it’s a big change for us.<\/p>\n
“It’s really something amazing to be able to live in a place where there is a garden, and to have a detached house.”<\/p>\n
The house is designed in a studio by a team of architects and scientists, and then programmed into a 3D printer.<\/p>\n
The printer is then transported to the site of the home.<\/p>\n
It works by printing in layers from the floor upwards. Each wall comprises two layers of the insulator polyurethane, with space in-between which is filled with cement.<\/p>\n
The house was the creation of Benoit Furet, who runs the project at the University of Nantes.<\/p>\n
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