A home built from cannabis? It won't make you high, but it is environmentally friendly and sustainable. Hemp is considered one of the most versatile and beneficial plants to humans. Can hemp be the building material of the future?
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:40 What’s the problem with concrete?
01:10 Exploring hemp as a building material
02:14 Building a house with hempcrete
03:37 Why isn’t hemp used more often in construction?
04:08 At the Hanf Museum Berlin
04:42 Fighting against the stoner clichés
05:21 Outro
#Hemp #Cannabis #Architecture
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CREDITS
Report: Ruben Kalus
Camera: Marco Borowski, Ruben Kalus
Edit: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Christine Lebert, Mirja Viehweger
Thumbnail Photographs: © Oskar Proctor/ © picture alliance/imageBROKER | Siegra Asmoe
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