How can we enable dignified and affordable housing via 3D printing?
We revolutionize 3D-printing with a software-based, participatory approach to architecture and planning.
Beta Realities' design for Community First Residencies in Austin, Texas offer a personalized solution to 3D printable, dignified housing. Conceived for a collective design approach, our kit of parts platform to customizable 3Dprinted homes presents a humanistic approach to technology. Participatory workshops and engagement of future homeowners in the design and homebuilding process allow for homes, that better fit personal needs. By designing functional objects instead of preconfigured homes, we empower multiple residents to form their community collectively.
Project Region
North America
Project Period
2024
Location
Austin, Texas, USA
Team
Paul Clemens Bart, Marvin Bratke, Alisa von Postel, Boyan Hristov, Andrei Dan Musetescu, Sven-Jacob Bauer, Tugce Nur Koyuncu, Anton Klyshnia
Programme
Residential, Social Housing
Client
Icon Technology Inc.
Collaborators
Morean, Ramon Weber
Size
From 36sqm
Revolutionize the way we build.
Community First! Residences enable a progression from the technology platform Collective Parts - Our new software approach to architecture. We enable flexible layouts for 3d-printed neighborhoods. Created on-demand, within set timeframes and budgets. Collective Parts place the planning of beautiful homes directly into the hands of future residents, empowering community involvement and engagement. Future residents can build their dream homes with physical building blocks, that are scanned and transformed to individual dream residences on-demand. The software tackles matrial optimization and fits the self-designed layouts into efficient printing beds to create resilient and exciting neighborhoods.
Scalable and affordable homes on-demand.
From shape and size to design and appearance, all elements are customizable and deployable based on the customer’s preferences and budget. Embedded adaptive furniture for both interior and exterior spaces maximizes the advantages of individual 3D printing.
Every home tells a story.
Just as every resident tells a story, each home is designed to reflect it. From program and layout to design and appearance, all elements are designed for permanence, belonging, identity and flexibility.
Smart architecture that can be scaled.
Our Community First! Duplex 'Home 99' is designed fully accessible and highly flexible in its open space layout with cross-functional usage and layers of privacy. Prefabricated fit-outs and embedded adaptive furniture for both interior and exterior spaces maximize the advantages of individual 3D printing.
Individually catered neighborhoods.
Due to the flexibility of the interactive approach, our design for the Community First! 4.0 site can cater to many diverse residents with various personal needs and preferences. As a means to reconnecting to self and the community, we created a tailormade duplex ‘Home 99’, arranged as four tinyhomes apartments in a 360° approach, fully embedded in its surrounding community.
A good neighboor.
Taking cues from and reinterpreting Community First Village's diverse housing typologies, 'Home 99' proposes a natural evolution within the naturally grown village: A contemporary reimagination of the traditional porch provides a soft transition from public to private spaces. By creating opportunities for chance encounters, shared meals and neighborly activieties, such as communcal gardens, we actively cultivate relationshis, create connections and encourage community and establish principles of giving back.
Vivid communities with a future-proof concept.
With the digital process chain we manage to deliver individually catered homes, that fit not only to single residents, but give diversity and interestingness to hole communities.
How can we enable dignified and affordable housing via 3D printing?
How can we enable dignified and affordable housing via 3D printing?
Individual configurations.
Offering a software approach to planning users have a variety of choices that come with the custom software. Fit-outs, rooves and interiors can be easily customized and visualized before construction.
ffordable homes for everyone.
Our approach empowers multiple users to form urban aggregations collectively. The software generates fully engineered multi-family homes, complete with area schedules, floor plans, cost estimates, and embodied carbon calculations.
Adaptive homes, custom made for you.
Our Community First! Duplex 'Home 99' is designed fully accessible and highly flexible in its open space layout with cross-functional usage and layers of privacy. Prefabricated fit-outs and embedded adaptive furniture for both interior and exterior spaces maximize the advantages of individual 3D printing.
High quality, multi-functional interiors.
Our interiors are custom catered to each resident's needs. The homes feature a variety of offerings of intelligent multi-use furniture that efficiently uses the spaces.
Affordability is key: Premium living for 99.000 $ or less.
The standard configuration offers affordable living with a premium factor. High-quality built-in furniture with flexible space layouts guarantee a new standard in social residencies.
Seasonal offerings and brand collaborations.
By creating service-oriented products, Collective Parts offer the potential for brand collaborations and new circular business models. The software can include seasonal offerings, continuous updates, and curated collections, unlocking unparalleled benefits for partners and future residents.
Robotic constructions.
Construction-scale 3D printing not only delivers higher-quality homes faster and more affordably, but fleets of printers can change the way that entire communities are built for the better.
