The project is a chalk and hemp processing building located in a chalk quarry in the town of Caistor St Edmunds in Norfolk East Anglia, it is intended to produce the materials needed for the structural system CobBauge.
East Anglia is a very arable region and practices conventional farming. The connection between chalk and agriculture is well established but I am proposing a furthering of this relationship. Hemp can be grown in the surrounding land, improving ecology and biodiversity, as well as being a resource that can be paired with chalk to add to its utility. One continuous wall breaks up space into the different areas needed for chalk and hemp processing. Interior and exterior rooms are made, their use depending on what is appropriate for each step of the process. The two materials are divided along this wall until they come together at the end, encouraged by the changing angles of the triangle spaces. By the end of the wall they are together, ready for transportation now as a valuable and sustainable building system.
