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Flat House

England

Flat House is an experimental three-bedroom dwelling at Margent Farm, a 21-hectare hemp farm in Cambridgeshire, England. Designed by Practice Architecture with Material Cultures and completed in 2019, it prototypes a prefabricated, scalable bio-based construction system: timber frame panels filled with hempcrete made from hemp grown on around 8 hectares of the farm itself, assembled onto the structure in just two days. The hempcrete is left exposed internally, regulating humidity and temperature, while the façade is clad with corrugated panels developed from the outer fibre of the plant, bonded with a sugar-based resin derived from agricultural waste, research carried out with support from the University of Cambridge. Conceived as a demonstrator of near-zero-carbon housing using materials grown on site, it explores closing the material loop between agriculture and construction, and has become an international reference point for hemp architecture.