Japanese foam houses, what is this wonder of technology?

Buying a house is a very important step in everyone’s life and also very costly. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford to invest a large sum of money in such a purchase. But, the Japanese are very enterprising people, who were able to find a way out of this situation and invented the house of Styrofoam.

The world does not stand still, and so does technological progress. Earlier plastic windows also caused mistrust among people, but now the Japanese company Japan Dome already creates houses of foam, or more precisely — from extruded polystyrene foam with a density of 30 kg / m3.

As a rule, these materials are used to insulate walls, but the Japanese thought they could go further and build from it.

The styrofoam house is a dome that can be easily and quickly assembled from prefabricated modules, door and window blocks as a children’s construction set. The walls are then treated with polyurethane foam resin and paint to protect the house from erosion, sun and moisture.

As for the foundation, and here everything is very simple — the house is placed on a round concrete foundation, or on piles — a special round sealing ring is provided for this purpose.

The most interesting thing is that such houses can be placed on the most uneven terrain and even in the mountains. By the way, the company is even going to create mountain cottage villages. All the assembly by a professional worker takes only two hours.

As assured by the manufacturers such houses are not inferior to conventional standard. With a wall thickness of 190 mm, they can easily withstand gusts of wind, rain and snow storms. They also keep heat well . And for a standard house with a diameter of 7-8 meters and a ceiling height of 4 meters, you will pay only 3.5 thousand dollars.