Margent’s farmhouse, designed by Material Cultures is principally made of hempcrete processed from our first year’s fibre crop.
Alongside it an all purpose studio, supervised by our architect Paloma Gormley and constructed as part of Cass Arts graduation program was made with the same hemp materials. Both buildings exterior walls are clad with Margent’s corrugated hemp fibre rain sheets.
The soft fibres are thermal compressed using a farm waste resin.
The buildings are powered by a sustainable biomass boiler, domestic wind turbine and a subtle array of solar panels.