I'm based in Chicago and make videos that explore and explain the built environment. Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads design studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company.
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0:20 Starting off strong with a subjective opinion. Why is so much critical content horrible? Did your best friend lose a job to a 3d printer or something?
The windows and doors aren’t 3d printed, neither is the foundation, or roof, or any of the utilities. They made a simple way to make walls, but I know from experience that walls are already the easiest part of a house to make. 3d printing a house is not the future, it’s a fad.
Im Chiraq adjacent. It will probably burn down again real soon and youll have a blank slate. Which Illinois corruption will...corrupt. And the rebuilding will be a disaster.
Very interesting. I have learned a lot about glazing for hi rise buildings from this.What an eye opener. In the 1980s I had a mate called Gerald Hicks whom still lives near Beaulieu nr Southampton in England ! Thank you Sir 😁👍🐢
They need to consider stucco (outside) or plaster (inside) to cover the printed walls. This can create a more traditional appearance and future repair, maint or additions can blend right in. One building I was in during remodeling in Los Angeles was originally built in the 1950s with exterior and some interior walls of about 8in solid concrete. Both sides of that were then finished with about another inch of hand finished concrete-based material like stucco or plaster. It was a challenge cutting new door and window openings... Had to rent a very large diamond blade circular saw (not hand-held!).
This is what as known as a utopian vision. utopia /yoo͞-tō′pē-ə/ noun 1. An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects. 2. A work of fiction describing a utopia. 3. An impractical, idealistic scheme for social and political reform. One key thing to know about a utopia: it is unobtainable in the real world. Looking at this plan all I see is a gray, dreary dystopia that I want nothing do do with.
Printing concrete and then just being done is a terrible mistake. You need an expert to place forms for doors and windows, tubes to run plumbing and electrical, and to provide finishing for the surfaces to make them function as needed while not looking bad.
Look into the tallest building in LA. The Wilshire Grand Center has the most antennae looking spire ever! It's not at all convincing when next to the U.S. Bank tower.
13:03 are they trying to 3d print a skyscraper? that thing looks dangerous. 3d printed building sounds like tech bro's attempt to solve a problem that doesn't really exist.
Oh, lintels are needed for openings in brick houses? Seems as if the gothic architects didn't know that. That's surely why there are no openings in gothic cathedrals. Didn't watch any further.
I live in a house that harnesses the sun. I live on an island in the northernmost part of Norway, equal to the northern coast of Alaska. A day where it's 17-18c outside and sunny, it's 30c inside with all the doors and windows open and a draft. If it's not sunny, it'll be 24-25c inside without any other power sources running than a computer, a fridge, a couple of freezers and a TV. So if you like spending money on cooling in addition to heating, get a house that harnesses the sun, especially if you live further south than me.
If public tax dollars built a sports stadium, the team shouldn’t be allowed to demand ANOTHER new stadium with the threat to leave. Where’s the tax payers return on investment? It’s why tax payers refuse to subsidize billionaire sports team owners anymore.
I think 3d printing houses sounds nice in theory but it limits the creativity of what we can do in the future. It creates a world that once built can't be changed and adapted to house changing needs.
Most cities are linear.People go one way in the morning,and back again.Mankind has to go linear first,and then in the sky,if he wants to save the planet.
😆 almost comical no mention of the rampant violent crime, Chicago will never be a city suggested. ALL metrics and numbers see a mass exodus currently just like Detroit. DUMBOCRATS have destroyed the city. Even it's sports teams are leaving the city 😆 🤣
Stop being paid by the construction industry. 3D is the next gen of homes. These are not valid concerns. You can cut out part and put in a patch. Can be printed on any 3d printer.. What about the current home not holding up because they are cheap?
I swear, the US has an obsession with wooden houses. The house is not really going to be different from other concrete houses, which is the norm in the rest of the world
Maybe someone could smooth the areas where the printer already assembled. Maybe all it needs is more human hands. The price would go up, but the time would still be reduced.
