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It's a largely automated method of manufacturing houses and it's thanks to a fleet of giant 3d printers. they squirt out a layer of material and then they squirt out another, and another, and another. icon has partnered up with one of the biggest housebuilders in america to deliver 100 homes here in georgetown, texas. you're connor? i'm connor. spencer, right? nice to meet you. welcome to the job site of the future. one thing i notice is i guess that's the only building noise there is? correct. there's got to be some banging at some point. is there some banging at some point?

For humankind will probably be taken from some kind of moon base which will most likely be not built from materials which we send up from earth. after all, the moon is not made of cheese, you know. the technology that will be required to rebuild the moon base with 3d printing is actually going to be a completely different form factor. it has to be, because the challenges of building there. so, you are probably looking at something that is a robotic arm that gathers local materials and then effectively melts them into place so you can continue to build on top of them. homes of the future have b...

There has to be banging, hasn't there? no banging. this is it, man. we're not hiding anything. now, the walls aren'tjust thin lines of concrete. there are multiple layers forming concrete columns to add rigidity. reinforced by steel, they are printed using a proprietary material, a cement—like substance that is air—tight while also providing increased insulation. i love the theme they have going on with their naming system. so it's not concrete, it's... lavacrete. the name of the system that mixes it is called...? magma. and the name of the machine that prints it is...? the printer is vulc...

Although some of the walls will be covered with tiles and the like, most of them will retain this rather unusual beaded texture. we are really proud of our beads. we are going to let them stand out and speak loudly, but we want to accentuate them with some accents. just to be clear, you are not going to render this or cover this pattern? this will be part of what the residents see? correct. the show home we started in is called house zero, and that was designed by a different architecture firm. it's more of a show home of what could be possible in the future. it's not for sale, which is a cryi...

And delivered simultaneously because the faster you can produce houses, the less you have to staff those worksites and job sites, and then you also have all the design freedom and flexibility that you can possibly imagine, plus you get a more resilient build material. it's early days at the moment so the actual speed at which houses materialise will vary, but at the wharfranch site, some of the earlier houses are ready to be roofed. you have your primary bedroom here. master bedroom. right. being british, can i show you the most exciting thing about the american home? i'm guessing this is the ...