Contour Crafting: A Future Method of Building

Dong Min Kim (Dane) Writing 340 Illumin Article June-12-2013 Abstract Building a house using 3-D printing technology is available to people in near future. Contour crafting is the method that can build a house quickly, safely, and economically. Since the robots and computers are the main part of the construction, human labor restriction that causes expensive and inefficient construction will be no longer a problem. Thus, numerous applications can take advantage of the benefits of this technology, such as low-income housing, emergency housing, and even space colonies. Although there are some ethical issues of temporary job loss of current construction workers, huge benefits of contour crafting will outperform few social issues.