A crude agricultural shed is slowly undressed to reveal an astounding farmhouse created predominantly from hemp. Designed by London-based , Flat House is a trailblazing, low-embodied carbon home that champions the use of sustainable and naturally grown materials. It is located at in Cambridgeshire, an organic farm that works with bioplastics, hemp and flax, and practises regenerative farming methods.
Practice Architecture collaborated with Margent Farm to find the site and develop the broader design of Flat House. This partnership also extended to the invention of a new hemp fibre cladding product that was used for the first time on the building. This deep, copper-toned corrugated sheeting is “bound with a sugar-based resin made entirely from agricultural waste,” explains the team at Margent Farm.