A Reykjavik-based architect believes a lava flow could contain enough building material for the foundations of a city to rise in a matter of weeks, without the climate impacts associated with traditional construction, reports Sky News.
Sky News writes:
After repeated volcanic eruptions near a fishing town in Iceland… Arnhildur Palmadottir, founder and owner of Reykjavik-based s.ap arkitektar, says she and her son, Arnar Skarpheoinsson, came up with the idea in 2018…
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… we thought, ‘whoa, I mean this is like molten concrete in a way, without the cement, so why can’t you just do something with it?’ ‘
Their lava-forming proposal focuses on how the destructive force of lava might be used to transform the global construction industry…
