---
title: "Watch a 3D-Printed Neighborhood Spring up From Nothing"
description: "A new video demonstrates how a nonprofit plans to build a 3D-printed neighborhood for low-income families in Latin American this summer."
date: "2019-05-10"
modified: "2019-05-10"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/watch-3d-printed-neighborhood-video"
categories:
  - "3D Printing"
  - "Future Materials"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "3d printing"
  - "construction"
  - "the digest"
---

# Watch a 3D-Printed Neighborhood Spring up From Nothing

![A new video demonstrates how a nonprofit plans to build a 3D-printed neighborhood for low-income families in Latin American this summer.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/watch-3d-printed-neighborhood-video.png>)
*\<em\>Image: New Story\</em\>*

## Scaling Up

We've already seen a 3D printer [construct a house](<https://futurism.com/this-home-was-3d-printed-in-only-24-hours-and-for-just-10000>). Now we can watch one build a [whole neighborhood](<https://www.fastcompany.com/90347268/take-a-look-at-the-vision-of-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-neighborhood>).

On Thursday, housing nonprofit New Story shared a [video](<https://youtu.be/ZMFssp7D6Xk>) that shows how it plans to build what it calls the "world's first 3D-printed community" — a futuristic application of 3D-printing technology that could bring affordable housing to the places that need it most.

https://youtu.be/ZMFssp7D6Xk

## If You Pipe It

The video depicts Vulcan II — a 33-by-11-foot 3D printer developed in collaboration with New Story's technology partner, [ICON](<https://www.iconbuild.com/>) — piping what appears to be concrete into place to create the frame of a small house — a process that the nonprofit claims the machine can complete in [less than a day](<https://www.fastcompany.com/90317441/there-will-soon-be-a-whole-community-made-of-these-ultra-low-cost-3d-printed-homes>).

The video then speeds up to show the printer creating a row of the dwellings before providing a tour of a home's interior, which appears airy and bright.

## Tech for Good

The video may be just a rendering, but the project it depicts is very real — New Story plans to build a 3D-printed neighborhood of [more than 50 houses](<https://www.fastcompany.com/90317441/there-will-soon-be-a-whole-community-made-of-these-ultra-low-cost-3d-printed-homes>) in Latin America this summer.

Each home will cost just $7,000, and only families earning less than $200 per month will be eligible to buy them.

"We’re bringing very futuristic technology to the families that need it most first," New Story CEO Brett Hagler [told *Fast Company*](<https://www.fastcompany.com/90317441/there-will-soon-be-a-whole-community-made-of-these-ultra-low-cost-3d-printed-homes>).

*Editor's Note 5/10: This story was updated to clarify the maker of the printer.*

**READ MORE:** [Take a look at the vision for the world’s first 3D-printed neighborhood](<https://www.fastcompany.com/90347268/take-a-look-at-the-vision-of-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-neighborhood>) \[*Fast Company*\]

**More on 3D printing:** *[This Home Was 3D Printed in Only 24 Hours and for Just $10,000](<https://futurism.com/this-home-was-3d-printed-in-only-24-hours-and-for-just-10000>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)