• Austin, Texas-based 3D printing construction company Icon has unveiled a luxury printed home with an ADU.

• The ADU tiny home and the 2,000-square-foot home were printed at the same time in eight days.

• See inside the tiny home complete with a bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom.

Tiny homes may be, well, small, compared to the typical home, but the market for downsized living is almost as hot as that of the housing market.

Tiny living has skyrocketed in popularity over the past several years, leaving tiny home makers with long waitlists and potential consumers with months of waiting.

Source: Insider

And supply chain constraints compounded with rising material and labor costs haven't helped companies build any faster or cheaper.

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But Austin, Texas-based 3D printing construction company Icon may have the solution to all of our big tiny home problems.

Enthusiasts of 3D printed homes say the technology can build houses faster yet more sustainability and inexpensively compared to traditional construction methods. And Icon has put this to the test with its latest project.

Printed tiny homes are quietly growing in global popularity and can now be seen in countries like Canada and Japan.

Source: Insider, The Spaces

But you won't have to travel internationally to see this new tiny home: Icon's latest property is located right in the heart of Austin, Texas.

In March, the construction technology company unveiled the 3D printed House Zero, an over 2,000-square-foot three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom home …

… with an adjacent 350-square-foot one-bedroom, one-bathroom accessory dwelling unit (ADU).

ADUs — which are essentially detached backyard rooms — have become increasingly sought after among homeowners, especially during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when remote workers started using ADUs as backyard offices.

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So it's no surprise Icon has given House Zero a smaller ADU companion, which was printed at the same time as the main home using the company's large in-house Vulcan printer system and "high strength" concrete, called 'lavacrete."