{"id":2127,"date":"2024-12-02T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2024-11-23T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T19:02:43","slug":"can-wasps-show-us-the-way-to-sustainable-and-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-wasps-show-us-the-way-to-sustainable-and-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Can wasps show us the way to sustainable and affordable housing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia is solving its severe housing shortage by using the Crane WASP (World&#8217;s Advanced Saving Project), which is known as &#8220;the infinity 3D printer.&#8221; \u00a0The WASP, employing technology used by the Mason Wasp, an insect that uses mud to build its nests, uses locally sourced materials, such as clay, mud, sand and even agricultural waste to 3D-print sturdy, affordable homes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wasp-inspired setup 3D-prints complete homes for $1,000<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/architecture\/crane-wasp-3d-printed-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/architecture\/crane-wasp-3d-printed-homes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780711265707\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia is solving its severe housing shortage by using the Crane WASP (World&#8217;s Advanced Saving Project), which is known as &#8220;the infinity 3D printer.&#8221; \u00a0The WASP, employing technology used by the Mason Wasp, an insect that uses mud to build its nests, uses locally sourced materials, such as clay, mud, sand and even agricultural waste&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-wasps-show-us-the-way-to-sustainable-and-affordable-housing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Can wasps show us the way to sustainable and affordable housing?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,62,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-housing","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}