Hempcrete and salvaged materials define this beach house
A 260-square-metre hempcrete beach house that runs on rainwater, solar and a palette of salvaged materials.
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Symbolplus fits out its Tokyo office in earth and paper
Symbolplus’ Tokyo office is fitted out almost entirely in red-earth plaster and handmade paper.
Salty air and sand: Barwon Dunes House by Eliza Blair Architecture
Designed by Eliza Blair Architecture, Barwon Dunes House is a two-storey coastal house where blackbutt, rammed earth and stone have been chosen to weather against salt air and wind.
Deans Marsh House is built for now, and years to come
Designed by Tecture, Deans Marsh House is a rammed earth and timber home in rural Victoria, arranged as two pavilions either side of an earthen spine.
CLT House is a retreat designed to weather in the open
Designed by nArchitects, CLT House is a lake house built almost entirely from exposed cross-laminated timber, scaled down from an unbuilt 2008 scheme.
A Toronto renovation that keeps a century of reuse visible
Candy Loft is a renovation in Toronto by SUSA that keeps a heritage factory’s timber columns and stonework as the feature inside a single, sculptural home.
Haus Hoinka: a straw bale monolith above an open garden
Most straw bale houses use the material just for the walls. Haus Hoinka by Atelier Kaiser Shen uses it for everything – floors, ceilings, roof – all wrapped in clay plaster and pressed into a spruce frame.
Built from the ground it stands on: Lot 8 in Arles, France
The renovation of a former nineteenth-century electrical depot draws its materials, almost entirely, from the few kilometres of southern France around it.
A pavilion grown from mycelium
Sebastian Cox and Studio Weave’s Intelligent Garden pavilion is grown from mycelium and ash felled to dieback – a low-carbon, compostable structure made almost entirely from waste.
A CLT house buried into a hillside
Hello Wood’s CLT House shelters into a sloping site outside Budapest, where a timber structure and green roof make for a home at ease in nature.
About Futures is an independent magazine documenting the homes, ideas and conversations shaping a new era of sustainable design.
The most exciting architecture being built right now is sustainable. About Futures covers the groundbreaking materials, the alternative building processes, and the people reimagining what home can look like when it’s designed for the future.
