This Hive-Like House Is 3D Printed, Carbon-Neutral, and Made of Clay 14,006 3D printing homes was a really big deal a few years ago; the idea was novel, unprecedented, and crushed records for the cost and time it took to build a livable house. Now 3D printed homes, while not yet prosaic and still pretty wow-worthy, have certainly become more commonplace, with all sorts of variations: prototypes meant for Mars, two-story apartment buildings, entire communities; it seems there’s still plenty of space to play with the technology and plenty of innovation around new concepts to build with it. One of those will soon be unveiled in northern Italy, and it boasts its own set of unique features to set it apart from its 3D printed predecessors. But calling it “futuristic” feels a little off, as some of those features seem like more of a throwback to the distant past, or an homage to nature and conservation.