A house in Karuizawa, Japan, features walls made of the world's first CO2-absorbing concrete. Designed by Nendo, the house is located in a mountain resort town known for its mild summers and outdoor activities.
The house in Japan , designed by Japan ese studio Nendo , has block walls made from the world’s first CO2-absorbing concrete.A house in Karuizawa , a town in the mountains near Nagano, Japan , has walls made of the world’s first CO2-removing concrete.
It is located beside a road on a property extending 110m in length. 70 minutes from Tokyo, Karuizawa is one of Japan’s oldest and most famous mountain resort towns. It is known for its mild summers, with forests in the surrounding area that offer cycling and walking paths.This house, designed by Japanese design studio Nendo, has block walls made of “CO2-SUICOM,” an eco-friendly carbon removal concrete. CO2-SUICOM stands for CO2-Storage and Utilization for Infrastructure by Concrete Materials.
It was made by replacing a portion of cement with an industrial byproduct and adding a carbon dioxide-absorbing material, which results in fewerpublished last year, worldwide cement and concrete production generates approximately 8 percent of total carbon emissions. Energy-based CO2 emissions from the cement industry in 2020 were about 1.2 percent of Japan’s total emissions.The design concept was to build the house with concrete block walls that would serve as filter screens.
The line of sight is what someone can see when looking from a particular location. So, they adjusted the angles of the blocks, which allowed controlled visibility. Depending on the arrangement of blocks, they controlled what could be seen and what was hidden. All this was achieved while ensuring that it looks attractive.
Around 2,050 of these blocks are stacked up in rows to make five tall walls, each three meters high. As explained the living space is designed to “fill in the gaps”. To ensure each room feels just right and ensures privacy, they adjusted the block angles by three degrees. ”Ultimately, the design transpires into blocks arranged in a gradient-like pattern,” theyTo make it, the formed concrete is placed in a curing chamber. Then, CO2 is fed into the curing chamber to be absorbed into the concrete.
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