Europe’s Largest 3D Printed Housing Project Welcomes Student Residents in Denmark

Denmark sets one of Europe’s tightest cost caps on subsidized housing, a limit strict enough that it has stiffled new affordable construction for years. In Holstebro, a 3D printer just circumvented this issue.

3DCP Group has completed Skovsporet (“The Forest Trail”), a 36-apartment student village now standing as Europe’s largest 3D printed housing development. Printed on site with a COBOD BOD3 construction 3D printer for housing association NordVestBO, the project came in comfortably under the statutory cap, with sculptural, curved buildings that conventional construction methods would have priced out of contention. Its first students have already moved in.

Skovsporet spans 1,650 m² (~17,800 sq ft) across 6 buildings, organized into clusters of six apartments each. Individual units range from 38 to 50 m² (~410 to 540 sq ft). The village sits next to VIA University College and was designed by SAGA Space Architects together with MS+.