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What if our building materials were regenerative rather than destructive?
Seacork Acoustic Panels are:
Sound Absorbing
Designed to minimize reverberation, echoes, and unwanted noise.
Local
We source our materials and craft our products within the bioregion they are sold.
Circular
If your Seacork product breaks, send it back, and we’ll turn it into a new one.
Compostable
Don’t want to send it back? Plant it in your garden.
Carbon Storing
The lifecycle of each product is designed to remove more CO2 than it emits.
Why Construction Materials?
13% of global CO2 emissions annually stem from the materials used in our buildings and infrastructure.
Seacork Studio embarked on a journey to explore material ecologies driven by this statistic. As designers committed to environmental stewardship, we delved into research aimed at lowering this figure. Our focus lies in employing place-based methods of construction using radically renewable materials, sourced locally and sustainably.
Why Seaweed as Materiality?
Seaweed is local, it shows incredible materiality potential, and can be cultivated regeneratively. Seaweed, abundant along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, holds remarkable potential as a material. Through regenerative cultivation practices, we have discovered its incredible versatility and value. As we delved deeper into the world of local seaweeds, we developed a profound appreciation for these extraordinary organisms and their crucial role in sustaining marine ecosystems.
Why an Acoustic Attenuating Seaweed Material?
As bio-based material designers, we embrace the inherent properties and characteristics of the materials we work with.
During our experimentation with various recipes and processes, we made a conscious decision not to impose specific properties onto the material. Instead, we allowed it to guide us towards its natural inclinations. What emerged was a soft, porous, and lightweight substance — ideal for an acoustic panel.
The Motivation
behind Seacork.
