A seaweed house, eye-popping cakes, furniture as art and art as furniture are among the ideas turning heads this season
It kills sea turtles, eats through pipes, blights beaches, smells awful and plays havoc with asthma sufferers. It is sargassum, a brown seaweed or algae – brown because it’s likely infected with agricultural fertilisers and wastewater. Would you like a house made from it? Mexican inventor Omar Sánchez Vázquez does. The proud owner of the world’s first home made from sargassum points out the algae is a highly functional, thermal, organic material which absorbs its own weight in carbon dioxide, is half the price of traditional bricks and strong enough to withstand hurricanes. Baking the algae bricks “gets rid of the stink” and if you jazz them up with plants, even the waste colour doesn’t look so bad.
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