{"id":486,"date":"2025-04-14T03:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/?page_id=486"},"modified":"2025-04-17T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:58:34","slug":"hemp-architecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/building-with-hemp\/hemp-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemp Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hemp Architecture<\/h1>\n
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The renaissance of building with this ancestral material
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In recent decades, architecture has been rediscovering Hemp as a building material, first in Europe and in countries such as South Africa, Israel, and the United States, then increasingly everywhere. Get to know some of the most remarkable projects and moments of this resurgence.<\/span><\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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Restoration of the Maison d'Adam in Angers,<\/b> France, 1990s
\n<\/b>Hempcrete was developed in France by the self-taught builder Charles Rassetti, while he was restoring the Maison d'Adam in Angers, in Nogent-Sur-Seine, a medieval house with a wooden structure, which ended up having its thermal comfort improved. From there, the material began to be used in restorations of historic buildings in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Clay Fields, Suffolk, United Kingdom, 2008
\n<\/b>This village of 26 affordable houses in England, designed by architect Riches Hawley Mikhail, was the first work to use sprayed hempcrete as a thermal and acoustic insulator.
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Push House, Asheville, United States, 2010
\n<\/b>The Push House was built with 30-centimeter-thick hempcrete walls by the design studio of the same name, in North Carolina. The goal was to demonstrate the concept and prove that the material is safe, at a time when it was still illegal to produce Hemp in most of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hemp House, Cape Town, South Africa and The Triangle, Swindon, United Kingdom, 2011
\n<\/b>2011 was a landmark year for Hemp construction, when two pioneering works were built. South African architect Erwin van der Weerd created the Hemp House in the Noordhoek neighborhood of Cape Town as a model of a sustainable house, both in materials and energy use. In Swindon, England, the Howells firm created a village of 42 houses with low energy consumption, all made of hempcrete.
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Geraardsbergens House, Belgium and Culburra Hemp House, Culburra Beach, Australia, 2015
\n<\/b>In 2015, two notable projects were a country house in Belgium, by Martens Van Caimere, and a beach house in Australia, by Shelter Building Design.
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Artists' Village, Ein Hod, Israel, 2017
\n<\/b>A work by the Israeli studio Tav Group, the artists' village of the rural community of Ein Hod, south of Haifa, was the first house to use hemp in its construction in Israel. Very airy and illuminated, the house makes maximum use of natural materials \u2014 wood and stone, along with Hemp.
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Fort V Reception Center, Edegem, Belgium, 2017
\n<\/b>In 2017, the BC Architects & Studies & Materials studio from Brussels promoted a Hemp construction workshop in an old defensive structure south of Antwerp known as Fort V, giving new meaning to a public place and bringing it closer to nature.
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House LO, Velehrad, Czech Republic, 2018
\n<\/b>A simple country house designed for its entire life cycle by Ateli\u00e9r Lina Bellovi\u010dov\u00e1. It was built to be first a house for a couple with two children, then a retreat for the family, then a home for two elderly people, and then to return to nature.
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Flat House, Cambridgeshire, 2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Film director Steve Barron bought a rural property, became a farmer, and called on architects from the British studio Practice Architecture to build this beautiful house from the material he grows himself. The project had a great media impact and initiated a research center on new materials, the Material Cultures.
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\nCase di Luce, Bisceglie, Italy, 2024
\n<\/b>This five-story building with 42 apartments, located in the Italian province of Puglia, expanded what was possible to imagine doing with Hemp. The building has net zero energy consumption: it produces all the energy it uses.
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\n84 Harrington Street Building, Cape Town, 2024
\n<\/b>Built by the Wolf + Wolf studio, a pioneer in the use of Hemp, this twelve-story building in South Africa is the tallest building made of hemp in the world. It houses a hotel with 50 rooms, a coworking space, a farm-to-table restaurant, and a Hemporium store.
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Continue reading:<\/span><\/h2>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
A Long History<\/a><\/div>
Building with Hemp<\/a><\/div>
A Material for the Climate Emergency<\/a><\/div>
A Plant with a Thousand and One Uses<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Architecture with hemp The rebirth of construction with this ancient material In recent decades, architecture has been rediscovering hemp as a construction material, first in Europe and in countries such as...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":343,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-no-footer.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-486","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions\/702"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hemp.humanitas360.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}