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‘3D-Printed Neighborhood’, Tabasco, Southeastern Mexico,

Icon and housing charity New Story

The construction process for the homes involved Icon's Vulcan II printer extruding cement out of a nozzle, layer by layer, until the basic structures of the homes were completed. 

This process took about 24 hours per house. Human builders then came in and finished them off by adding roofs, windows, and doors. 

The team aims to produce 50 homes for families in the area who are living in extreme poverty, often in dangerous and rickety makeshift shelters. So far, two homes have been completed and the families chosen will receive them at a zero interest, zero profit mortgage costing around 400 Mexican Pesos (about US$20 per month), which will run for seven years.