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IF_DO gets go-ahead for hemp-based home in the New Forest
IF_DO has been granted planning permission for a ‘pioneering’ hemp-based single-storey house in the New Forest
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: How France is pioneering contemporary architecture built from straw, hemp and thatch
Natural materials expert Dominique Gauzin-Müller describes France’s growing movement to build in straw, hemp and thatch with a contemporary aesthetic
Make mine a plant-based building please
The escalating climate emergency means construction must clean up its act without delay. A solid rule-of-thumb is to specify materials derived from plants, argues Joe Giddings
From farm to form: Flat house by Practice Architecture
Film director-turned-hemp farmer Steve Barron commissioned Practice Architecture to help him ‘grow’ a prototype house using his own crop. The result is Flat House, an ultra-low embodied carbon building the team is now looking to reproduce at scale. Rob Wilson interviewed Paloma Gormley, partner at Practice Architecture, to find out more. Photography by…
The future is green but the regs have yet to catch up
Geoff Wilkinson looks at issues surrounding the use of natural construction materials