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Thatched Facades for a Sustainable Future: CO2 Neutral Fire-Retardants for Vertical Thatched Surfaces

This project is a practice-oriented research collaboration between stakeholders, industry and academia, which sets out to investigate how material choices and radical tectonic solutions can be drivers for sustainable change in design, industry and legislation. Fire safety as a part of the design solution is central when building with bio-based materials. As a point of departure, the project aims to develop new standards for CO2-neutral bio-based materials in façade constructions as well as generating new combinations of materials, surface treatments, and construction solutions. The focus of the project is to develop and test new sustainable solutions for thatched vertical constructions. It aims to both have an environmentally low impact, have as ‘close-to-standard’ fire retardant properties and to be industrially scalable. Initially the project was described as a three stages investigation starting with 1) a mapping of existing knowledge in historic and modern construction in Denmark and northern Europe, 2) a development, design and built-up of a thatched construction and 3) a comparative fire test of the constructions.

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Contributors

A. Beim
H. Ejstrup

CINARK – Center for Industrialized Architecture & Royal Danish Academy
Denmark

Presented at ICSA2022, Aalborg University. Critical Practices 2022 booklet (PDF)