Construção com cânhamo - 14ᵃ Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo

Project development: Brazil

Ecosapiens is a multidisciplinary studio focused on building healthy environments. It works on ecological projects and projects across technologies, buildings, and territories, integrating people and nature.

In this installation, we present a response to a warming world through construction with hemp, a plant species that captures CO2 from the atmosphere during its development.

When its fibers are used in hempcrete (a mixture of hemp and lime), the captured carbon is stored in the building for decades, ultimately resulting in a positive carbon balance resulting in a low environmental impact building that helps mitigate climate change.

The installation combines a prefabricated module made of wood, lime and hemp panels and another module made of bricks built on site, highlighting the versatility of the technique used in construction as a seal, which is very efficient from a thermal and acoustic point of view.

In addition to hemp, in Brazil it makes sense to consider building with other fibers such as sugarcane and coconut, which, when mixed with lime, have characteristics similar to hempcrete.

In Brazil, hemp is produced by associations for therapeutic purposes whose medicinal value is indisputable and its fiber, precisely the material used in construction, is still an unused byproduct.

Since we have no tradition of industrial hemp cultivation, its agroecological production creates an essential social value chain, allowing small farmers to remain in the countryside with dignity.

Participate in the program of debates, workshops and associated activities!

TODAY (10.10)

2:30 pm – table Risk-Free Periphery in the Context of Climate Change

4pm – table Knowing to Transform: Community Climate Risk Reduction and Adaptation Plans

6:30 pm – table Inclusive Adaptation: Nature-Based Solutions in the Peripheries

9am – Drawing Workshop: Oscar Niemeyer's Architecture in Ibirapuera Park and the Climate Challenge

IN THE NEXT DAYS (11 to 14.10)

ATTENTION the table Palmas: For 36 years, the ecological capital of Tocantins which would be held on 10/11 | 7pm was canceled.

11.10 and 12.10 | 9am – workshop Inventa(rio) Fronteiras: Playing for Multispecies Cities

11.10 | 10am – workshop Elémenterre teaching bag

11.10 | 11am – table Learning to inhabit the Anthropocene: the crisis of architecture

11.10 | 2pm – table Architecture for Learning and Civic Use

11.10 | 3pm – table Culture and Public Architecture

11.10 – 15h – workshop Elémenterre teaching bag

11.10 | 4pm – table Reconnecting with Nature & Circular Design

11.10 | 5pm – table Architecture of Belonging: Interpreting Heritage Through Place

12.10 | 10am – table Experience: Climate Refuges and Naturalized Public Spaces, with Eco-Neighborhood

12.10 | 10:30 am – table Childhoods and Climate: Climate Justice in Vulnerable Territories

12.10 | 10:30 am – Windsock Workshop with the Floating Collective

12.10 | 3pm – table Doing a lot with a little: architectures for a planet in transition with Esteban Benavides from Al Borde office

12.10 | 4:30 pm – table Earth – building a sustainable and democratic future

12.10 | 5:45 pm – table French presence at the Biennale and screening of the film AJAP – Albums of Young Architects and Landscape Architects

13.10 – activity Pantanal Action at IABsp

10/14 | 10am – table Urgent Panorama! Space as an act of permanence

14.10 | 6pm – Launch of the “Nature-Based Education” Guide

JOIN! IT'S ALL FREE!

And there's much more until October 19th!

NOTE OF CONDOLENCE

With deep sorrow, the Brazilian Institute of Architects – São Paulo Department (IABsp) mourns the passing of architect and landscape architect Kongjian Yu, a global leader in ecological urbanism, and the members of his team who accompanied him, tragically killed during the filming of a documentary. The institute is honored to have had him as a participant in the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, where his transformative vision strengthened the dialogue between global challenges and local realities. IABsp emphasizes that Yu's contribution, which transcends borders, will remain an inspiration for generations and expresses its condolences to China, to the families of all the deceased, to his friends, and to all those impacted by his genius and dedication. Read the full note here.

Hemp construction

Marta Pinto Levy, Felipe Pinheiro, Denise Covassin