Regenerative house to grace Greece mountainside

You've got plenty of options when it comes to healing your own body, but patching up your domicile usually requires days of back-breaking labor and gobs of cash to boot. Thankfully, that awful process could be nearing its end, as a £9.5 million ($18.64 million) European Union-funded project sets out to develop self-healing walls for your average home. The idea is to develop "special walls for the house that contain nano polymer particles, which will turn into a liquid when squeezed under pressure, flow into the cracks, and then harden to form a solid material." The technology would prove quite useful in areas where earthquakes are prominent, and in an effort to test things out before shoving it out to contractors everywhere, a swank villa is being erected on a Greece mountainside to collect information. The house's walls will be built from "novel load bearing steel frames and high-strength gypsum board," but more importantly, they will contain a smorgasbord of wireless sensors and RFID tags meant to collect, store, and disseminate critical data regarding "any stresses and vibrations, temperature, humidity, and gas levels." Now, who's the lucky lad(s) that get to call this their home research dwelling?

[Via Physorg]

[eliasgreydrummer @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:11AM]

If this works, what will production costs be? Will it act like plaster/drywall or would you still have to put plaster/drywall over the material? If this stuff turns out to be semi-affordable and still look good, we could see a massive overhaul in the materials used to construct homes.

[Mike10010100 @ Apr 3rd 2007 6:03AM]

How ironic! Using a Latin souding word (domicile) in a greek posting.

[NarfPointZort @ Apr 3rd 2007 9:38AM]

"You've got plenty of options when it comes to healing your own body, but patching up your domicile usually requires days of back-breaking labor and gobs of cash to boot."

Yeah, it's so cheap and easy to heal your body. Cancer? AIDS? Meh, nothing that $5 and some vitamins won't fix!

[hydrogen_wv @ Apr 3rd 2007 3:35PM]

Narf - My thoughts exactly... Even simple things cost a lot to fix... even minimally invasive surgery that would take no longer than an hour can cost thousands... And those are the things that CAN be fixed...

House burns down? buy a new one. Body burns down.. well...