A Japanese company has 3D printed a 530-square-foot concrete tiny home for the price of a car — see how it was built

Brittany ChangSep 14, 2023, 15:52 IST

There Serendix 50 was built over 44 hours and has has a bedroom, bathroom, and living room with a kitchen.serendix

A Japanese company has constructed a prototype 3D-printed tiny home for about $37,300.
The 527-square-foot unit has one bedroom, bathroom, and living room with a kitchen.

Purchasing a home is the biggest expense most Americans will ever pay in their lives. But in Japan, a startup has brought the cost of a new home down to that of a new car.

The catch? It's 3D-printed. And it's not exactly the mansion most Americans dream of.

The burgeoning 3D printing construction tech is quickly making its way across the real estate and home construction industry in the US. In Texas, sales in the upcoming largest neighborhood of 3D-printed homes have already started at $476,000. And on the East Coast, the University of Maine has figured out how to 3D-print a fully recyclable tiny home using wood waste.

Overseas, progress on printed homes seems to be chugging along as well.

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Its first uniquely globular building, pictured below, was printed in March 2202.

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About a year later, it unveiled its next build: the Serendix 50.

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Fujitsubo was designed to accommodate a couple.

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Like most homes built using the tech, the walls were 3D-printed.

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To print the walls, Serendix turned to Winsun and Twente Additive Manufacturing's printers, Ogata said.

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These printed components were completed inside of a factory next to the construction site.

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And it seems all of these money saving methods worked. Ogata compared the cost to build this tiny home to that of a new car — 5.5 million yen, or about $37,300.

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This lower price tag is a contrast to the increasing cost of housing in Japan, which Ogata calls a "serious problem." "Japanese people get angry [about the] housing industry."

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This lower price tag is a contrast to the increasing cost of housing in Japan, which Ogata calls a "serious problem." "Japanese people get angry [about the] housing industry."

But nobody has moved into this home. It's just a prototype located in a city about four hours outside of Tokyo: Komaki, Japan in the Aichi Prefecture.

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A Japanese company has 3D printed a 530-square-foot concrete tiny home for the price of a car &mdash; see how it was built

Overseas, progress on printed homes seems to be chugging along as well.

Its first uniquely globular building, pictured below, was printed in March 2202.

About a year later, it unveiled its next build: the Serendix 50.

Fujitsubo was designed to accommodate a couple.

Like most homes built using the tech, the walls were 3D-printed.

To print the walls, Serendix turned to Winsun and Twente Additive Manufacturing's printers, Ogata said.

These printed components were completed inside of a factory next to the construction site.

And it seems all of these money saving methods worked. Ogata compared the cost to build this tiny home to that of a new car — 5.5 million yen, or about $37,300.

This lower price tag is a contrast to the increasing cost of housing in Japan, which Ogata calls a "serious problem." "Japanese people get angry [about the] housing industry."

But nobody has moved into this home. It's just a prototype located in a city about four hours outside of Tokyo: Komaki, Japan in the Aichi Prefecture.

A Japanese company has 3D printed a 530-square-foot concrete tiny home for the price of a car — see how it was built