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Concrete is not a ceramic but cince the process of printing concrete or clay is very similar it will be listed here for now.

The west makes it a future fantasy, but china make it today's reality. In Shanghai the first 3d Printed houses are a fact. What can we learn from this?

On the other hand, concrete is know to be a building material that is not eco-friendly. Isn't it about time that science re-invents concrete?

http://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/2014/04-11/109096.shtml

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Three-dimensionally printed homes are assembled in Shanghai. Suzhou-based construction-materials firm Winsun New Materials says it has built 10 200-square-meter homes using a gigantic 3-D printer that it spent 20 million yuan ($3.2 million) and 12 years developing.

Winsun's 3-D printer is 6.6 meters (22 feet) tall, 10 meters wide and 150 meters long, the firm said, and the

In a nod to China's green agenda, Winsun said in the future it plans to use scrap material left over from construction and mining sites to make its 3-D buildings.

In a nod to China's green agenda, Winsun said in the future it plans to use scrap material left over from construction and mining sites to make its 3-D buildings.

Winsun says it estimates the cost of printing these homes is about half that of building them the traditional way.

The finished product. Although the technology seems efficient, it's unlikely to be widely used to build homes any time soon because of regulatory hurdles, Winsun's Mr. Chen said.

On a lighter note, all of this might make graffiti look more awsome:

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