Meet the pioneering tenants of Europe's first inhabited 3D printed house

The Dutch couple pays €800 ($960) rent per month to live in the future.
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Meet the pioneering tenants of Europe's first inhabited 3D printed house
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Retired shopkeepers Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers are getting used to living inside the first legally habitable and commercially rented property, where load-bearing walls were made using a 3D printer.

The house is the first of five within ‘Project Milestone’, a joint construction and innovation project between Eindhoven University of Technology and the Vesteda housing corporation.


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