The six winners of Icon's Initiative 99 competition, which asked students and professional architects to design 3D printed home concepts that could be built for $99,000 or less, are now on the startup's digital catalog.Icon, Victoria Roznowski
- Icon asked students and architecture pros to design 3D printed homes that could be built for $99,000 or less.
- The six winning concepts are now featured in Icon's digital catalog of 3D printed home designs.
Using a robot 3D printer to construct a home doesn't have to be as unattainable as it might sound.
Quite the opposite: According to construction-tech startup Icon, the cost to build a 3D printed home could be less than the price of a luxury car.
In 2023, the Austin-based startup launched its Initiative 99 competition, inviting students and professional architects to design homes that could be built for $99,000 or less "without sacrificing beauty, dignity, comfort, sustainability, or resiliency."
The prize? Money — and the opportunity to have their concept featured in Icon's Codex, a digital catalog of printed home designs that real estate developers could peruse and ask Icon to build.