Architectural practice: Practice Architecture & Material Cultures

Project name/title: Flat House

Location: Margent Farm, Huntingdon, UK

Materials: Timber / Woodwool / Bamboo

Completion year: 2020

Situated at Margent Farm, a rural R&D facility developing bio-plastics with hemp and flax, Flat House is a ground breaking radically low embodied carbon house. The three bedroom house was designed with the aim of prototyping pre-fabricated sustainable hemp-based construction to be applied to larger scales of house-construction. 

Working closely with engineers and material specialists, a prefabricated panel was developed infilled with hemp grown on 20 acres of the farm. All elements were raised into place in just two days. 

The new building was built within permitted development and takes the footprint of an existing barn. The collaboration extended to the creation of a brand new hemp fibre cladding product that was used for the first time on the building.