First Printed Residential House with KEUCO IXMO Fittings and Accessories
Stone on stone was yesterday, today it’s layer on layer: The first house in Germany was built using the 3D concrete printing process in Beckum, Münsterland. A milestone in the construction industry. The house with organic, soft shapes - the furnishings are minimalistic, high-quality and modern. The house consists of three-shell walls filled with insulating compound. The concrete mass was applied layer by layer using a giant 3D printer. In just a few months, a single-family house with 160 m² of living space was built.
The house’s furnishings should not be taken into account, but the high-quality and special style of the construction should be underlined. The concrete layers should remain visible inside and out. Reduced, clean and yet expressive. This standard is consistently applied to all rooms of the house.
The bathrooms are equipped with KEUCO IXMO fittings in the shower and on the bath tub. The minimalistic mixer tap elements blend in with the futuristic image, understated yet strong in design. The shiny chrome surfaces create a brilliant contrast to the dark tiles in the shower. In line with the house’s principle of “no corners or edges”, round rosettes were chosen for the fittings.
The accessories on the washbasin and toilet also live up to the credo of the design concept: The EDITION 400 with its rounded design idiom is delicate and high-quality eye-catcher. They elevate the bathroom with their understatement.
What once started as a pilot project could influence construction in the future and also present sanitation companies with completely new challenges. The sanitary professionals at Leifhelm & Pelkmann GmbH were much more involved in the process than usual. BIM data was used to determine where the printer left cutouts for pipes and connections for water, electricity and building services. KEUCO offers BIM data from numerous products for high-quality bathroom equipment.
It was already possible to work during printing, such as laying empty conduits. Work that is actually carried out later on the new building runs in parallel. This saves time.
Another major advantage of the construction of the 3D-printed residence: It is more environmentally friendly than traditional construction, as less material is used overall. Many different building materials no longer had to be assembled on the construction site to form a wall element. This meant enormous time savings and streamlining of the individual construction processes. Even complex work, such as curves in the building, can be implemented more easily.
“Hous3Druck UG” was the developer of the first residential building in Germany using the concrete printing process. The planning was carried out by the architecture and engineering firm Mense-Korte. Peri, an international manufacturer and supplier of formwork and scaffolding systems, has made it possible to print with special pressure mortar.
The 3D printing house in Beckum is a promising project - still rare in Germany - in which KEUCO was able to participate, among other things.
