{"id":18040,"date":"2016-08-17T21:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T21:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/im\/interview-with-hans-vermeulen-co-founder-dus-architects-who-is-building-the-first-3d-print-canal-house\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:51:31","slug":"interview-with-hans-vermeulen-co-founder-dus-architects-who-is-building-the-first-3d-print-canal-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/im\/interview-with-hans-vermeulen-co-founder-dus-architects-who-is-building-the-first-3d-print-canal-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the First 3D-Print Canal House: Co-founder of DUS Architects, Hans Vermeulen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Building the First 3D-Print Canal House: Co-founder of DUS Architects, Hans Vermeulen<\/h1>\n<h5>BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG<\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dusarchitects.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DUS Architects<\/a> was founded by Hans Vermeulen, Martine de Wit, and Hedwig Heinsman. DUS won the prestigious Amsterdam Awards for the Arts 2011. In addition to their artistic and internationally oriented work, DUS was praised for being socially committed. The public architecture firm is also the founding partner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/opencoop.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OPEN COOP<\/a>, a cooperative for the knowledge-based industries, and a \u201cdo-tank\u201d that actively solves societal problems. One of the spinoffs is Amsterdam Electricity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DUS is currently leading an international team of partners in \u201cresearch and doing,\u201d connecting science, design, construction, and community by 3D-printing a canal house in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The U.S. President, Barack Obama, visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/3dprintcanalhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D-Print Canal House<\/a>, in March 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Have you anticipated the feeling of living in a plastic house?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">[Laughs.] Good morning!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Well, that&#8217;s how you wake up. You wake up in a plastic house! In a plastic bed and plastic kitchen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">We are not saying that everyone should live in a plastic house. We are also testing new combinations of wood fiber, and with foam concrete filler. We print what we can test. One of DUS Architects&#8217; first rules is learning by doing, or research by doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>You do a lot of temporary projects. What is the goal of these short-term projects?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Fun. That\u2019s a very important one. Especially in Holland, architecture is quite a long process, often a struggle. With a temporary project, we cut short the regulation process. For example, the Bucky Bar [a dome bar made entirely out of red umbrellas that caused a spontaneous street party with 300 people in the cold winter]. The project taught us not only to go into the online world. The offline world becomes an important place in its most essential meaning, maybe even more important. It is often that we don&#8217;t know what we will learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You&#8217;ve completed a 150-unit housing project in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. Give me an example of a built environment element that increases social cohesion.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kamer-maker.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-462 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/im\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kamer-maker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It\u2019s more how you organize the social structure or the community living within those physical borders. What we learned was that the residents, once they became organized as a group, entered the power structure of how we make cities. The residents\u2019 representatives negotiated with the municipality and architect to discuss how they wanted to live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">For example, elderly people now share a guest room. Younger residents share a bigger kitchen or living room. Parent with kids share the gardens. Residents also share a workshop space and movie theater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are all kinds of mechanisms being constructed within the online social networks, which can be applied in the physical world. The sharing principle and the way you organize yourself\u2014those are the most powerful tools for instigating social interaction within your neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Have you seen anything you\u2019d consider an exemplary housing model in the world?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">This concept of a wider range of how you can live together in the 21st century is quite an interesting model. We did analog customizing as architects, with the client, the corporation, and the community. Online, you can create customization tools. As an architect, you can offer people designs and then customize or contextualize because it&#8217;s biometric rule-based design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>What is your general view on housing besides customization of residents\u2019 requirements?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">There is still a very large group of people in the world who cannot afford a humane way of living. I think that&#8217;s one of the main challenges we have as a global society. As an architect, I\u2019d like to come up with global solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Would the 3D-Print House be one of them?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">This could be one of them. It also democratizes production. What you see here in Holland\u2014but everywhere in the world\u2014there are only a few entities that have access to housing production. The Internet opens up information. If you have people having access to production via printers, fax labs, or networks printers, then you have a totally different power structure of generating a city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Let\u2019s talk a little about the OPEN COOP.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">We started with six partners, and there&#8217;s now a group of 18 companies. The power of a coop is that people could organize to be stronger as a market player. At the same time, they can work together with the bigger companies to upscale ideas into the world. One of the spinoffs of OPEN COOP is Amsterdam Electricity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Apart from electricity, is OPEN COOP going to fulfill more day-to-day needs?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A water concept is part of OPEN COOP. There is a biological food company. We are looking into the possibilities of starting a house coop. We are trying to learn how a new housing project operates in a not transparent and difficult housing market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">For the 3D-Print Canal House, how does a global leader in adhesives ends up working with one of the biggest Dutch contractors, nonprofits, and the government?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The creative industry has power in complex processes. We can connect market innovations to the larger public and show the potential of what&#8217;s already being invented within companies. This is a visionary project that doesn&#8217;t harm companies, so we generate a platform for them to actually start testing in the open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Where does the desire to build come from?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">I think I want to reorganize our environment, and connecting and repurposing an object, for me, is also building. The power of design is that it is a communication tool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">When you make this [3D] printer, and you have this idea of using waste, then it&#8217;s an easy step to say let&#8217;s go to, for example, Mumbai and start using the plastic they already are collecting; and start to rebuild slums. That is one of the solutions the printer can bring. However, it doesn&#8217;t make sense to drop this thing without creating the community first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>What is needed for social impact?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s finding the balance between being personal and finding scale. I think that&#8217;s quite important because being personal is that people project it to their own life. To have a social impact, you have to let it grow\u2014that&#8217;s the upscale, and that\u2019s where the markets come in. They have the power of upscaling things, but they don&#8217;t have the power to be personal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">That&#8217;s what you see in old domains, in healthcare, social housing, the financial sector, still, with current relations, is that the upscaling became the problem. However, people should not romanticize self-organizing systems [such as a coop] because it is quite difficult to find a balance. We call it the quest for communal personal gain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>What can people do to support their communities?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Well, first they can do more than they think they can. By doing, you can start to understand more about systems and what is your position in it. Electricity, for example, is a low-interest product for the consumer, but on a global level, we&#8217;re making war because of it, so it&#8217;s really awareness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>So, what&#8217;s next?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">What we learned from the 3D-Print Canal House is that we can take design and make it sharable, scalable, and downloadable. It is a personal design for a global community. That\u2019s the power of this technique. You can go from mass production to mass customization, and bring production back into the cities closer to the people with rethinking resources: How can we use waste streams into building materials?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It is the third industrial revolution connected to the social revolution of the Internet. That\u2019s what we tried with this project, and that&#8217;s actually your role as a designer and as an architect.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The interview is part of<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00XRPCB02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impact X<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUS is currently leading an international team of partners in \u201cresearch and doing,\u201d connecting science, design, construction, and community by 3D-printing a canal house in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1264,1265,98,1266,1267,111,1268,291,1269,1270,477,1066,1271,210,76,99],"class_list":["post-18040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3d-print","tag-architecture-firm","tag-art","tag-award-winning","tag-canal-house","tag-design","tag-dus-architects","tag-future","tag-hans-vermeulen","tag-home","tag-innovation","tag-living","tag-open-coop","tag-research","tag-science","tag-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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