Passivdom's smallest model measures 380-square-feet and costs $31,900, designer Maria Sorokina tells Business Insider.
Here's what the house looks like when you walk in the front door. It's a large open space with a small kitchen and floor-to-ceiling windows.
This model doesn't include a separate bedroom, which means residents need a sleeper sofa. A small bathroom is located near the kitchen.
Passivdom offers three models of homes, and can make custom models as well. The premium models come with furniture, but the one pictured below comes unfurnished.
"We should have opportunities to live in nature away from civilization, but have comfortable conditions of a traditional house. This technology can allow us to live in the woods, on mountains, or on the shore — far away from people and infrastructure," Sorokina says.
To make a Passivdom home, the team maps out the plan for the 3D-printer in its factories in the Ukraine and California. Layer by layer, the seven-axel robot prints the roof, floor, and 20-cm-thick walls, which are made of carbon fibers, polyurethane, resins, basalt fibers, and fiberglass.
Doors, windows, appliances, an alarm system, solar panels, and the septic, electrical, healing, cooling systems are then added.
Depending on the model, the whole process can take under 24 hours. The design and production of larger houses with more specifications and finishes, like the one below, can take up to a month. If a house is pre-made, it can be shipped the next day.
The startup believes 3D-printing is a cheaper, more efficient way to build homes that it can sell at a (relatively) affordable price. "Over 100 million people do not have a roof over their heads," Sorokina says. "It is necessary to build more affordable houses."
Passivdom is not the only company using 3D-printing to build homes. The San Francisco-based housing startup Apis Cor, Dus Architects in Amsterdam, as well as Branch Technology from Chattanooga, Tennessee say they can construct homes in mere days or weeks.
