By 2030, international estimates foresee a rapid growth of adequate housing requirements for over 4billion people living with yearly income below $3,000. The United Nations calculated that over the next 15 years there will be an average daily requirement of 100,000 new housing units to meet this demand.
Massimo Moretti, the creator of WASP said: “We demonstrated that ours was not just a dream; that low cost housing is possible and that houses can be made with a 3D printer.”
Over the past years WASP has made the idea of auto production and shared knowledge the heart of its project. The company proposes a vision that goes beyond low cost housing, to the MakerEconomy, a model where everything can be self manufactured through shared solutions. WASP says the MakerEconomy will rely on 3D printing and will be tied to meeting life’s primary necessities: work, health and housing.
Giogio Noera, president of Healt R&S, linked to Italy’s Ministry of Defence explained that he is working with WASP at a project for advanced health and sanitary assistance during mass critical events.
“We aim to join together two different workgroups to create houses that can have walls capable of repelling insects,” Noera said. “This technology will be of fundamental importance in areas where the civil population needs to fight infection in order to survive.”
