Solutions from Ukraine: Kyiv region to build nation’s first private house using 3D printer

In the Kyiv region, in the hero city of Irpin, the first private house in Ukraine will be built using 3D printing technology. It will be built for a family that lost their home due to the war.

The mayor of Irpin, Oleksandr Markushyn, announced this.

What is the problem?

A few years ago, Natalia and her husband Yaroslav built their own cozy family home, where they lived with their two daughters before the start of a full-scale war. As a result of Russian aggression, the house was utterly destroyed. After the liberation of Irpin, Yaroslav went to the east and died while fighting for Ukraine at the Battle of Bakhmut.

What is the solution?

Benefactors decided to help Natalia's family and offered a quick, innovative solution – to "print" the house.

" At last, I can share the amazing news – Irpin is set to be the first city in Ukraine to have a home constructed using 3D technology and a printer made in Ukraine," Markushyn wrote.

How does it work?

The family will receive the house thanks to the United for Help charity project with the support of the Embrace the Nation charity fund.

The city council provided equipment for dismantling the ruins in the yard and prepared a site for construction.

^{Dismantling the remains of a private house. Photo: Screenshot from Oleksandr Markushyn's video/Telegram}

The works have already officially started; after the signing of the memorandum, the city council provided equipment for dismantling and prepared everything for construction. Soon they will pour the foundation and "print" the house.

"Printing the foundation of the house will last only five days! And this is together with the security room with reinforced concrete walls. And then – communications, repair, and landscaping of the yard," Oleksandr Markushyn added.

^{Photo: screenshot from the video}

For reference:

In Lviv, school walls were built with the help of a 3D printer. This is the first school in Ukraine to be made using the latest technologies.

Also, in the Kyiv region, the Bucha Children's School of Arts, named after Levko Revutsky, was restored with funds from German donors.