3D printers used to build mansion in China

PanARMENIAN.Net - 3D printing can be used for practically anything these days - even in construction it seems, Digital Spy reports.

Chinese construction company Winsun has recently unveiled a mansion and a tower block in Suzhou with materials made by 3D printers, pictures from Caixin show.

The buildings' walls were made by giant 3D printers using concrete, and then assembled together to form a building structure.

It's not clear how much of the buildings were 3D-printed, but windows, balconies and metal hand rails were installed on the 1,100-square-metre mansion as normal.

The project is certainly not Winsun's first of this kind either, with the company having previously built ten small houses in only 24 hours using 3D printers.

These new buildings are proof-of-concept and will therefore be unoccupied, but they serve as a way to show what can be achieved with 3D printing and how construction may look in the future.