How ICON 3D Printed House Zero 

I almost lost my mind printing these walls, but it was so worth!! It has been the honor of my life to be apart of projects like this.

"It wasn't fair to expect the customer to innovate on our behalf." That might be the most refreshing thing ive heard from a company rep before.

Вы молодцы. Соединили печать бетоном и дорогие работы по дереву. Вы изобрели новый стиль. Исполнение этих работ радует. Превосходно.

Love how they show off that it's also a BETTER wall with this project!

That house is so different it's hard to imagine what it would be like living in it, but the combination of it being so unique, high end and small is beautiful and I can see why you like it. The color of the wood brings such warmth to the house, and that is my favorite wood color for a house interior. I watch the channel of Enes Yilmazer and a few others because I like seeing what architects come up with when sometimes the budget is unlimited. The homes are often ridiculous, spaces too large for a person to feel comfortable. Some of the best design ideas come in boats, RVs and tiny homes, because the design has to be optimized for function, including multi-use of space. That the 3D printing of walls allows different shapes to be made without it costing more is an exciting development though. It's good to see ICON exploring its potential.

The 3D print quality (the layers) has massively improved since some of icons other places. Well done ICON!

🤗🤩🤩WE AGREE WITH YOU JARETT…AND HOPE YOU GET TO STAY THERE…WHILE IT IS A MODEL WE LOVE ❤️ THE PROGRESS AND FREEDOM 3D PRINTING ALLOWS 😍😍😍

Wow this tour with Jason is amazing! Who would not want to meet this guy about housing construction with emerging technologies! Thank you both!!

This is the first 3-D printed home that I like the texture of the walls - they look like a soft weaving (so I appreciated the way the designer brought in wall hangings and rugs that reflected this!). I have questions - how does one hang a picture in a 3-D printed home? How are the walls repaired from wear and tear over time? Does the texture catch dust? Can you add windows that don't run floor to ceiling? Could you open up the space using half-walls instead of whole walls? I look forward to seeing more of these homes.

Congratulations to Icon and Lake|Flato. This was an exciting project to be involved in. The 3D printed concrete and the high level of design are the stars here but those aren't just glulam beams, those are FraserWood EdgeMatched glulam beams!

I have been following your review since ICON's inception and now has really made progress as new technologies come into play. There are still so many people stuck on stick frame building which cannot keep up with the demand or give the performance economically that will be required by the NetZero requirements in the very near future. This has certainly made my decision to build 3-D printed house and not a stick frame. Even back in 2010 we build a Integra Block house which is so tight, solid and sound proof and then build a stick frame home to achieve this performance would be so expensive, high maintenance and not near the life span of 3-D printed houses. Thanks for the update Jarett!

I was born n raised and still own a poured concrete house. Thaat house was a WW2 bomb shelter. Thats how sturdy they are. The walls get warm/ cool and stay that way, helping electric costs. These houses are awesome. Theres no danger of landfill wastes - except roof.

Thank you for the video This is so incredible to hear him talk about this. He loves his work and we do too 👍

IconBuild is doing amazing things.

Beautiful home!! Keep up the great work!

Please, please, please bring these homes to Florida. We need them NOW! I will build one, we are in Tampa.

I wonder if you could put color in the mix? would be a big upgrade to choose the color of the walls too

Beautiful! Wonderful! Inspirational! Absolutely a great beginning!! 👏👏👍😀💜

I SO want a house like that. I just wish they could make them faster, so that they would be available to regular people like me.

Beautiful!

Those layers are lookin' as smooth as cake batter, they must've improved the formula.. and the windows/roofing looks nice, too.

Did they ever say a price?

I am impressed by the definition of the home I just wish that there was more high-low ceiling to floor camera scanning throughout the tour to get a full feel of it. Great job on the house.

I think it would be a great house. The wave parts should have a lazy Susan closet or pod (self space).

Great concept in quick building for remote areas

Great episode, maybe the best one yet.

Great hob Jarret. Would wish if you cover the structural aspects of this new house and how it was able to satisfy the city building requirements

Can a home like this be built n California, especially since California has earthquakes?

Fabulous! Lots of potential, but I think we still need to wait until this construction method becomes more widely adopted to really see the cost savings. In all videos I've seen they're still very shy about saying how much it cost to build the home they're featuring.

I was excited about this until I saw what they are selling for in Austin. If we want to move forward as a society, Housing needs to be more than just Affordable.

I've written ICON many times that I want a 3d house as an example for the disadvantaged community where my land is in - foothills of CA near Grass Valley/Nevada City/Marysville. I've never heard back. I would like to start the movement in CA.

At 0:35 there is a crack on the wall. These types of cracks usually develops where reinforcing element are missing.

I would love 3 houses printed in Gonzales Texas, and i will frame the roofs myself. When will this be possible? Thank you

Wonderfull :) Truly authentic and true to the process + super nice & cozy with all the rounded spaces / shapes !!! I would apply a protection coating (transaparent or else) on those concrete walls and also investigate maybe crushed bricks + clay / cement for different real textures ;)

Imagine the dust collecting on all those ridges…and how is $400,000 icon houses in Austin cheaper than any of the other houses? This is not cheaper! It may have been cheaper to build, but those savings did not translate to the consumer! When I first saw the first one, I was excited for more accessible cost housing, but when they listed…forget it.

I’m curious if it’s possible to incorporate more recycled materials that are used in earthships like tires, glass bottles etc.

Thinking of my favorite Frank LLoyd Wright homes, I definitely shy away from flat roof homes!

Gosh, back in the old days, we had to telegraph houses.

Omg!! I am going to have to work for you!! I really LOVE concrete and 3D together!! 😱😱😱

With all the organic shapes, I have to wonder about how the foundation/footer is made to accommodate those shapes without costly material waste?

This dude rocks. He will be or already is a millionaire.

What’s the biggest issue that this project had to face? Permitting? Material availability? Engineering?

What an innovator. I am so impressed by Icon and its exceptional CEO. Well done!

When are they going to post specs and price range.

Id be really interested to understand how the elec, plumbing and mechanical systems are integrated. All i caught was that services are run in the slab and in the roof. What about wall mounted power outlets and switches?

Acoustics? It'd be interesting to see how you plan the design production process. Thanks for the detailed coverage.

Love it! I would also like to see new thinking about colour and non-natural illumination, ie. beige is terrible indoors because many people visually blend into the walls - no foreground/background luma/colour contrast; secondly, overhead lighting is the worst - maybe floor to ceiling light panels like the windows for diffuse side light after dark? (Personal passions; room for improvement :-)

Vidéo intéressante, belle réalisation architecturale.

How much is the house

How do you get financing? What did it take to get permits?

Excellent 👍

What is the cost all up once finished?

Woweee this is Super Incredible...Expands my Vision by far...3D Printing has been a serious plan in my heart inregards to homes...so to one day see this amazingness on line and now also through your Icon Company...it's just greatly making my heart full of additional Joy...Wow. Thank you JASON Thank you ICON.... I have been interested for long time now to buy up a lotta land to build a city / economy and even bigger to be able to supply such a beautiful 3D homes offer to those who have been completely pimped/tricked/syked/deceived/ out of their money through out their lives and please do add any additional words to chain on to the few I mentioned ..... To be able too provide for the poor that God speaks of in His Word. His Word is one of the most desires in my heart and with this immaculate beautiful way and the manner of Cost efficiency..is beyond a Blessing in it self All I can say is Mr Jason Ballard and to the Mrs Ballard as well as your whole TEAM...GREAT JOB KEEP IT COMING YOU ALLL SUPER DUPER ROCK!!!!! I am interested in getting a 3D home built in Michigan, one in Texas ..mansions specially and a whole town in Africa 🌍....other areas we can speak about as soon as we speak in Person...My husband and I will be Superbly excited to meet and greet with such astounding Persons as your selves and ur representative. Thank you all so much for your Post ur Videos...All I can say is Glory be to God in YESHUA'S (Jesus) name Amen.

Sick ass dining area

I'm so glad they've changed their minds about their projects. When they released their first video about their village being built in South America, I said OK GREAT! How about the country HOSTING YOU? They said they were doing "off world projects now"..... Even THEN we need affordable housing NOW... HERE ON PLANET EARTH! I love these 3D printed houses. Anybody that bought property in the late 80's that was probably the last time housing was even affordable. Anything after THAT, you're talking in the millions, as if THAT'S affordable or even REASONABLE. 3D makes all that problem GO AWAY, just like cell phones did to MA BELL with the outrageous monthly prices....

I love it.

I would like to know if you have to Kaulk all around windows and doors to avoid bugs or water to get in . And is the concrete shower wall easy to clean or will it get moldy after time ? This is a magnificent house !

they should have used a wide angle lens to show more of the house.

Which price of this house?

From The Caribbean 🇻🇨....I Love.

I want this house as my retirement home in VA. Love to get in touch with the Icon team.

Those walls are dust and dirt magnets. How on earth do you expect to keep it clean?

....affordable housing? I guess 450,000 for a 1000 sqft house is "affordable" in Austin...maybe actually start making affordable housing...

Love it - I’m sold

I saw this company on 60 minutes and am very intrigued by these houses. I also just read an article online regarding another home in Texas that was built with concrete designed with deep grooves to help dissipate heat so that no Air Conditioning is required, even in the triple digit temperatures of Texas. I can't hep but wonder if with the method that the icon houses are built that automatically creates grooves between every layer if this design doesn't provide similar benefits for heat dissipation? Has Icon tested their buildings "R Factor"? I would love to know what this is prior to the "Trades" installing insulation, as I did not hear anything about the inherit "R Factor" of their buildings yet. I would assume the "R Factor" has to be pretty decent with their design and could be significantly higher with double walls where there is an additional air gap between the inner and outer wall. Either way it has to have a built-in value for saving energy which could be ridiculously increased with the proper insulation material, which makes me wonder if Icon has researched the best material/option for insulating their buildings, especial when they are expecting to be building on the moon...

Jarret can i have the email about this presentation? i wante meke contact

I really want one. Will check their website

*_I have yet to see a 3D printed house made in an area where it's 40 below. I have no faith these houses can work in the cold-there hasn't been any built in these areas, only where it's hot._*

How do they hold up in a earthquake?

I'm wondering if the printing media could be tinted. I'm not too keen on the coldness of the color.

The walls must scatter sound better than normal houses.

how does a 'new' construction method like this satisfy housing codes that are based on completely different construction methods but different materials as well?

I wonder if at the windows and doors a robot could cut a straight line into the beads so that you can install a window in a straight square opening? Where they have the metal edge for the shower it seems to make sense to do a simple clean vertical cut and stick a piece of metal in there with minimal caulking (potentially in the inseam) to help with the install process. If you did that on both sides you wouldnt have to worry about thermal bridging and if by robot then it could be really precise. Just a thought, it seems that the interface of the vertical connections is the weakest point but this idea could be an option to solve that. I'd be interested to see if frost protected shallow slabs could be used and even basement printing as well. Here is cold canada we typically have basements since we have to be so deep below the frost line.

How much did the home cost in total?

Genius❤

Do you have to pre-heat the concrete floor to start printing? I can't imagine how big the spatula could be!

Great video!

weird question. How did your cell reception operate during this tour? Did you have any degradation in cellphone/internet signal?

How much did this cost?

There is one common problem with 3D printed houses. The layering surface on the wall easily attract very hard to clean dust and cobwebs. It needs to be smoothen out.

are the different layers mechanically or chemically bonded? the material cures before the nozzle arrives back at that same spot, so its just the weight of the material that keeps it together?

Can you Sand the exterior walls to remove the rugged aspect and perform painting finishes !!

Love it guys.I want to do this in Aus

Excellent presentation, but some critical questions. First, because of the outrageous insurance premium, how is this house reduced in fire risks by having less lumber? Another's fire proofing to a 100% fire proof to eliminate insurance? Secondly, with hurricanes and earthquake probabilities in certain regions of the United States how have you made the structure stronger to the these mother nature forces??? If we can eliminate risks we can reduce home ownership costs after construction!!! Where is your development on construction with apartments or multi-dwelling structures.

Cost? Why don't they talk about cost? At one point he said the back house walls were delivered for $50k for 400 sqft? Yikes.$125 a sqft for just the unfinished walls.....

Should build in car charging stations and pitched *slightly for solar panels 😮😁

A house in the shape of a sphere should be printed

What about a 3D printed driveway

I think i just solve walls issue but not plumbing and electric but it is really great progress but not much financial feasible but looking like a good future.

Very cool

OMG 😍 it's great work, for long time waiting for real 3D home. I don't have a home. We really want a 3D home with some cool ideas 💡. Me and husband is so creative but we are not engineers 🤣🤣😆. How to contact you guys. Please

I build for a living, and I'm still not seeing how this is cheaper than building out of 2x6..... or 2x4 for that matter....with less mechanical issues in fitting it out... What does all that pour-as cement look like when it gets dirty ?

"Expand the imagination" "Totally re-invent" This is what Napoleon Hill was talking about in his 1937 book THINK AND GROW RICH. “Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve.”

What's the volumetric difference of material of the straight wall design vs the curved, like on that facade? I love the look, but you say cost is the same. But there is a difference between distance in a straight line vs a wavey line.

Will these house printing companies start building lower cost housing? Right now, their sales are $300,000 for a house.

I love the curvature of the house, but being concrete, does it feel cold inside? Also can the concrete be painted and is it a rough feeling?

Can you make a video that list companies to hire to 3D print your dream home?

I'm a 3D printing enthusiast - but I'm conflicted about this project. Icons previous projects have such progressive mission statements, but this one feels like they're reaching into very mainstream/materialistic ideals to gain reputable traction; Which I suppose may be necessary to truly cast (or should I say print) their technology as an industry standard. It's great to see they've taken it upon themselves to test variations in quality, utility supply, and even interior finishes - But for some reason it feels they are still creating "architecture" that feels very traditional, not very progressive, like, at all. Same goes for Cobod's "architecture". As far as I'm concerned WASP has the greatest sense for creating innovative Architecture that actually utilizes this technology in a way that is emergent. They are Actually producing structural pleated walls - not making analogies to waving sheets of paper...

Wow really Neat design features Sign me up!!!

How much does it cost ?