Straw and hemp design

100% recycle architecture

of strawbales and hemplime Sustainability Gospel

technologies and projects

HEMP and LIMESTONE Unique nature-friendly, recycle and sustainable materials made of nontoxic hemp and natural limestone. There is out and inner insulation of houses, facilities and vehicles, plasters, renders and other finishes, acoustic materials and fiberboards. Hemp-lime materials absorb CO2 during 17 years of carbonization and could be dismantle and recycled in the and of life cycle without any damage for environment. Pioneer of hemplime materials is Ukrainian-USA company Hempire. There are best fit materials for LEED, BREEAM, DGNB and Living Building Challenge certified buildings.

HEMP and LIMESTONE

George Washington grew hemp

Hemp usage started plenty years ago in antiquity.

10$ note of 1905 shows process of hemp harvesting William Randolph Hearst forced hemp ban in 1937

HEMP and LIMESTONE

Map of marijuana legal status in the World on Jan 2018. blue – legal, orange – decriminalized, red- crime

HEMP and LIMESTONE

Technic non-toxic marijuana breeded in 2009 in Glukhiv

Glukhiv Institute of bast grops. Ukraine

HEMP and LIMESTONE

HEMP and LIME

HEMP and LIMESTONE

STRAWBALES & CLAY Straw and clay were used by humans since they appear. There were plenty of forms and combinations of straw and clay during the World history. Rethinking of straw as materials came after technical revolutions. First strawbale houses in Nebraska, and next Fueillette house near Paris pushed evolution of ecological materials. Nowadays there are plenty of industrial producers of prefabricated strawbale panel houses in the World. Around 5 of them based in Ukraine. There are best fit materials for LEED, BREEAM, DGNB and Living Building Challenge certified buildings.

STRAWBALES and CLAY

Old traditional house in Central Ukraine made from air brick and strawbale

STRAWBALES and CLAY

Modern house made of strawbales and thatch

STRAWBALES and CLAY

First strawbale house in Nebraska. USA

STRAWBALES and CLA

Maison Feuillette

STRAWBALES and CLAY

Maison Feuillette

prototype

STRAWBALES and CLAY

private house of strawbale panels by Ecococon LLC, Lithuania