Elemental presents “most radical” incremental housing design in Venice



Chilean studio Elemental has collaborated with building materials company Holcim to present a stripped-back incremental housing prototype at the Venice Architecture Biennale that is built of concrete made with biochar and recycled aggregate.

The structure, which Elemental describes as “a structural sanitation unit”, comprises a prefabricated concrete frame fitted with plumbing infrastructure, from which people could build a home in economically disadvantaged areas.

It is built of modules of Holcim’s latest concrete innovation, which is made with 100 per cent recycled aggregates and biochar – a natural carbon-sequesting material.

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