It’s the first privately owned residence in Austin made of the eco-friendly material
In a serene South Austin neighborhood, where the houses are so small compared to the sprawling oak trees that surround them that it looks like a forest on Google Maps’ aerial view, a crew of builders are constructing a two-story back house. Hammers striking, saws buzzing, and mixers churning are familiar sounds to residents in our growing metropolis, so, from afar, there’s little to suggest this worksite is not your typical build, but actually a first-of-its-kind project in Austin ...
“When the government is trying to regulate something they don’t understand, they fuck it up,” she shrugs cheerfully. As for the aesthetic of the hempcrete home, it feels like a treehouse – how it rises among the limbs of an ancient oak – but it’ll have a decidedly unfancy vibe owner Susan Hays mood-boarded to her architect as “redneck compound.”
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