A Dutch couple have moved into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house which could change the way we live in the future.

Retired Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers’s new home is a 94-square metre two-bed bungalow in Eindhoven which looks a giant boulder with windows.

However, despite its natural look, it is actually at the cutting edge of housing construction and was printed at a nearby factory.

Elize, 70, said: “It’s a form that’s unusual, and when I saw it for the first time, it reminds me of something you knew when you were young.”

Elize and Harrie, former shopkeepers from Amsterdam, received their digital key – an app allowing them to open the front door at the press of a button – on Friday.

“It is beautiful,” she said.

“It has the feel of a bunker – it feels safe,” Harrie added.

The house, for now, looks strange with its layers of printed concrete clearly visible even a few places where printing problems caused imperfections.

In the future, as the Netherlands seeks ways to tackle a chronic housing shortage, such construction could become commonplace.

The country needs to build hundreds of thousands of new homes this decade to accommodate a growing population.

Theo Salet, a professor at Eindhoven’s Technical University, is working in 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, to find ways of making concrete construction more sustainable.

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