In the United States, hemp has only recently been deregulated for any kind of use—its cultivation blocked in 1937 by a public ...

Once completed, the individual rooms become three-dimensional building blocks. For the pilot project, blocks will be stacked to form a 13-room house overlooking one of the city’s central canals.

Sheltered by mature beech trees, the building sits on simple flint foundations. Block House is a prototypical, experimental building which demonstrates that low-carbon construction is not only ...