One of the world’s most influential architecture firms is proposing using carbon-sequestering hemp as a vital part of the international built environment of the future.
Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) announced the design of a hempcrete high-rise, the Urban Sequoia, a sleek, modern building that captures and sequesters as much carbon as it generates.
The firm rolled out the design for Urban Sequoia at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow last month. The prototype design was generated by the international firm’s London studio, with partnerships worldwide.
The proposed high rise (not yet in production) can sequester as much as 1,000 tons of CO2 per year, equivalent to 48,500 trees. The company says they are seeking a locale and investors to build the first prototype.
“The central proposition of Urban Sequoia is that the built environment can absorb carbon. SOM’s proposal transforms buildings into solutions—radically rethinking how buildings and cities are designed and constructed,” the company said in their press release.
“Our proposal for Urban Sequoia—and ultimately entire ‘forests’ of Sequoias—makes buildings, and therefore our cities, part of the solution by designing them to sequester carbon, effectively changing the course of climate change,” said Chris Cooper, design partner, in a statement.
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