Architecture – Neugersdorf – Löbauer Experimental Laboratory: a small frame house made of a printer – Culture

Ebersbach-Neugersdorf (dpa/sn) – Miniature frame house for a good reason: The basic frame house and open youth workshop “Geistesblitz” from Löbau (county Görlitz) has developed a special Christmas gift. As the foundation announced Thursday, 30 half-timbered home miniatures were produced using 3D printing and bioplastics, designed and implemented by the young people themselves in 50 hours of work. 50 percent of the proceeds go to the open workshop so that young people can continue to experience future digital technologies such as 3D printing and virtual reality for free.

In the experimental lab, young people explain to other young people how to use modern technology twice a week. Another portion of the income from the mini-printed houses goes to maintaining the half-timbered houses. For more than 15 years, the Umburbehaus Foundation has been dedicated to the special construction method in the border triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.

Half-timbered houses combine block construction with half-timbered and steel construction elements. The heyday of the construction of this house stretched from the 17th to the 19th centuries. There is written evidence that the first houses were built in the 16th century.

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