First 3d printed home in Detroit

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This home is part of a 3-year collaboration of innovative partners that care about training the construction workforce of the future and building more attainable houses. This program allows for training and innovation of 3d printed housing on scattered site, infill lots in Detroit. We'll show young people how digital, robotics, and automation tools can be used in homebuilding to make better homes, faster.

When considering what we wanted to build for our first 3d printed house, we knew we needed to take into consideration the community’s needs. We didn’t want to design the most cutting-edge 3d printed house out there, we wanted to show the people of Detroit that a 3d printed house is for anyone. Bryan Cook of Develop Architecture designed this home, also the president of the Detroit chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects. This 1000 sq ft, two-bedroom home will showcase how 3d printing can offer both customization (with no added cost) and excellent design. Made possible by a grant from MSHDA, we plan to complete this home in fall 2023. It will be for sale through Keller Williams.

This project serves the desired goals of the City of Detroit, as follows:

Vibrant, walkable neighborhoods with a variety of housing types
More attainable housing
Use the land bank as a tool to balance social equity
Attract young people in construction with good wages
Support for new, minority real estate developers

This project also serves the goals of the IslandView Greater Villages Neighborhood Framework Plan

"In many ways, the single-family home is the baseline for establishing the recovery of the neighborhoods in the Islandview Greater Villages planning study and it should be seen as one of the most visible outward representations of stability."
"Encourage partnerships between public and private stakeholders to yield transformative outcomes that bring housing into the market while expanding key facets of the area’s recovery"
"Housing development will be critical to creating community and place"
"There is a need to target development to support an inclusive mixture of incomes"

The home was 3d printed at our facility in Southwest Detroit. The wall segments were printed in our facility in Southwest Detroit, then placed and assembled on site.

So why are we building this house with robots?