Reservations for the 100 homes rising in the Texas Hill Country’s Wolf Ranch community — by ICON, Lennar and Bjarke Ingels Group — will go live shortly.
A look at the massive machine that makes it possible.Located near the San Gabriel River just west of I-35 in the suburb of Georgetown, large tracts of Wolf Ranch are already filled with couples and kids in homes developed by a flurry of nationwide builders that include Coventry, Drees, Highland and Perry — plus another neighborhood built by Lennar.
An additional clubhouse and swimming pool are being developed by Hillwood nearby, while the community’s original amenities center, The Den, is in the Hilltop area to the north. An overarching homeowner association is responsible for dues that include the amenities and alarm monitoring. But it’s the faster and cheaper construction promised by 3D robotics — walls can go up within days — and the ability to add the heavy and harder-to-transport water on site, that has attracted proponents and investors who also see it as an ideal affordable home-construction solution.Another view of a mod-looking interior.The walls have a look that resembles corduroy.
The concrete formula is mixed in the attached “Magma” machine. But to ensure the Lavacrete hardens at a certain rate — so it can both support the next layer, but won’t collapse — it must be changed with the weather and is adjusted on the fly at the jobsite. While some critics say the most difficult part of 3D building is getting windows and doors to properly fit, Lennar’s trade heads, BIG architects and ICON experts collaborated on smoother installation solutions for Wolf Ranch.
That’s because the new houses can be customized using eight different plans and 24 configurations with either three or four bedrooms, and two or three baths, and will range in size from 1,574 to 2,112 square feet.
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