In a series of announcements at this year’s South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, construction technology company ICON and BIG unveiled CODEX, a digital catalog of 3D-printed homes. The catalog features five ready-to-print home collections each based on a different program, with over 60 designs across a range of price points. Within CODEX, BIG designed the Storm and Fire homes, with design elements that mitigate damage and loss due to hurricanes and wildfires; the TexNext collection, which reinterprets four beloved Texan housing typologies; and House One, a three-bedroom home that celebrates indoor and outdoor living within the Exploration collection. Every home in CODEX is designed to be printed using ICON’s newest advanced material, CarbonX. When paired with ICON’s wall system and robotic construction methods, the CarbonX formula is the lowest carbon residential building system ready to be used at scale. New collections will continue to be added to CODEX, which aims to be the most extensive digital catalog of buildable home designs in the world.
