Canada’s 3D Printed Home World's First to be Listed on Airbnb
Canada’s inaugural 3D printed home ‘Fibonacci House’ has become the first of its kind to be listed on the popular travel-lodging site Airbnb. Built by Dutch start-up Twente Additive Manufacturing, the compact yet luxuriously-upholstered holiday home is now available for rental in the scenic hills of British Columbia. Using any funding raised via bookings, global charity World Housing ultimately aims to 3D print an affordable new living space designed specifically for use by single moms, a group often shunned by the Canadian housing market. Founded in 2018 by a technical team with a background in automation and wind energy, Twente AM is a manufacturer of concrete 3D printers for complex architectural applications. The company has subsidiaries in Canada, Germany and it’s establishing one in Dubai, while it operates R&D and production facilities around the world, including in British Columbia near the site of Fibonacci House. Inspired by the Fibonacci Sequence, a ‘golden’ math ratio often found in nature, Fibonacci House is based in Kootenay Lake Village, a growing community in the Nelson BC basin. Thanks to Twente AM’s technology, the home features a uniquely curved freeform design yet retains a highly-robust structure, which makes it completely sound-proof and capable of adjusting to changeable climates. Measuring just 35 m2, the tiny house still manages to squeeze in a living area, furnished kitchen and accommodation for two adults and two children on its mezzanine levels. Fittingly, the micro-building’s bathroom is also tiled with a mosaic at the ‘Fibonacci curve’s’ center, while its yard continues on this curve to overlook the area’s stunning vistas. In practise, the house itself took eleven days to print using a Twente AM system, with a total of twenty additive manufactured parts included in the build. Featuring glue-lam beams, handmade window frames and around 800,000 m3 of printed concrete, the firm says that its finished lodgings demonstrate the material and energy efficiency gains that can be unlocked through 3D printing.
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