How a Czech sculptor and architects are printing a floating house

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Updated At : 08:33 PM Jun 19, 2020 IST

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Chandigarh, June19

A Czech sculptor has teamed up with architects to design the country’s first 3D-printed house.

The house is being made of special concrete in the southern Czech city of Ceske Budejovice and is planned to float on the Vltava River in Prague in August.

“The house we are printing right now is called ‘Protozoan’. It is inspired by nature, by organic shapes, by protozoa,” the sculptor, Michal Trpak, told AFP.

The house has a bedroom, a bathroom and an area with a kitchen and living room.

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