First printed home with KEUCO IXMO mixer taps and accessories
Stone on stone is a thing of the past, today it’s layer on layer: In Beckum in Münsterland, Germany, the first house was built using 3D concrete printing. A milestone in the construction industry. The house with its organic, soft design - 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 huge 3D printer. A single-family house with 160 m² living space was built in just a few months.
The house’s furnishings didn't pay attention to anything, it was important to emphasise the high-quality and special style of the construction. The concrete layers should remain visible inside and outside. Understated, clean and yet expressive. This aspiration is consistent in all rooms of the house.
The bathrooms are equipped with KEUCO IXMO mixer taps in the shower and on the bath tub. The minimalist mixer tap elements blend in with the futuristic image, being understated yet powerful 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 and edges”, round rosettes were chosen for the mixer taps.
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 a 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 pose entirely new challenges for plumbing companies. The sanitary professionals of Leifhelm & Pelkmann GmbH were involved in the process much more than usual. BIM data was used to determine where the printer leaves cutouts for pipes and connections for water, electricity and building services. KEUCO offers BIM data from numerous products relating to high-quality bathroom equipment.
It was already possible to work during the printing process, such as laying conduits. Work that is actually carried out later on the new building runs in parallel. This saves time.
Another major advantage of constructing the 3D printing home: It is more environmentally friendly than conventional construction, as less material has been used overall. It was no longer necessary to assemble many different building materials to form one wall element on the construction site. This meant enormous time savings and streamlining of the individual construction processes. Even complex work, such as roundings in the building, can be implemented more easily.
The developer of the first residential building in Germany using the concrete printing process was “Hous3Druck UG”. The planning was carried out by the architectural and engineering firm Mense-Korte. Peri, an international manufacturer and supplier of formwork and scaffolding systems, has made it possible to print with special printing mortar.
The 3D printing house in Beckum is a promising project - still rare in Germany - in which KEUCO could be involved, among other things.
