Canalliance is a hemp-based material used for insulation, envelope construction, and finishing of your home.
Not only its unique properties make the construction of your home easier, but it will provide you with an energy-efficient and healthier environment.
The Canalliance material is made of hemp shavings to which we add natural binders with living properties. These binders provide a breathable, warm, and vibrating aspect for a tangible overall comfort.
THE PROCESSES
The manufacturing methods used in ArtCan’s products are rooted in European masonry traditions. The foundations of our modern techniques are those of several generations of artisans, whose heritage teaches us to build our homes intelligently: a living, breathing structure!
Canalliance is a modern pisé: a filling material that allows the building of the entire envelope of ecological construction. Canalliance is a high-performance construction technique. The finished building envelope is realized in three very coherent steps, each one facilitating the next one.
The framework allows the setting of a simple and lightweight formwork that, once filled, provides a strong vegetal and mineral support and is ideal for the manufacture of limestone coating.
It is an architecture in resonance with our body constitution. Like us, it has a skeleton, flesh, and skin.
THE FRAMEWORK OF YOUR HEMP HOUSE
The framework is the structure, the solidity. Made of wood, it is, just like the skeleton, protected from the outside. Hemp walls can be adapted to any type of frame: plank on plank (mortise and tenon or timber frame) or conventional frames.
THE BODY: THE WALLS IN HEMP AND LIME
The walls made of hemp and lime are built with formwork. Prepared on-site, the mixtures pile up in the molds and combine to form a monolithic envelope, without joints and therefore without energy loss. It constitutes at the same time the mass and the insulation of the house. Moreover, it brings protection and rigidity to the structure.
THE SHELL: HEMP COATINGS
To seal and provide strength, we apply the most durable fenders, lime coatings. These 100% mineral coatings are true to their natural origins. They allow the house to breathe, perspire and act as a shield against outside humidity, acting like the air barrier of the envelope. Lime chemically becomes again the limestone that it was at the origin. This information is verified.
Indeed, the hemp concretes and coatings have been analyzed and tested in particular for their thermal conductivity, water vapor permeability, hygrometric regulation, thermal inertia, and fire resistance. The Canalliance hemp coating technique has many advantages.
Economical, because of the reduced number of operations it requires, Canalliance hemp coating also offers incredible thermal and hygrometric regulation, allowing you to create a real energy cocoon. Furthermore, from an aesthetic standpoint, its unique and refined appearance makes it an incomparable and inspiring finish for basements or any privileged space in your home.
For your construction project, hemp is the ecological choice par excellence! A natural, durable, energetic, and healthy material, hemp allows the construction of a vegetal structure for a healthy and ecological house.
VIBRATORY RATE
Traditions brought up to date with new energies to build your homes in free thinkers!
Together, we create homes with elegance, reflection, intelligence and apply new concepts rooted in thousand-year-old traditions. We invite you to participate in the union of spirit and matter to enliven our living spaces, give them soul and a vibratory quality that supports and nourishes us energetically. You will feel the harmony of a healthy home, not to mention the artistic work that highlights the experience of professional artisans.
Authentic and luminous window moldings, rounded corners, curves, vaults, Provencal ceilings, Canalliance hemp materials adapt to any architecture. City or country homes, modern looks, or historical inspirations, we can build in any style imaginable and push the limits of materials.
CANALLIANCE: A TOP QUALITY MATERIAL
Durable material, an excellent combination of mineral and vegetal, the hemp chènevotte (shavings) is crystalline, and we mix it with calcareous binders, lime formulated according to well-proven know-how.
Did you know that the use of gypsum and lime has proven itself for centuries? The construction of entire cities has been done with this technique, called “love marriage” by Italian masons.
Its extreme durability is also enhanced by the fact that it is highly repellent to pests and fireproof.
Here is a list of its main qualities:
Plant particle very rich in silica, hemp has a behavior quite favorable to masonry. Its very high absorption capacity gives it considerable technical advantages.
The formwork technique allows incredible architectural creativity with all the desired flexibility for the creation of curves.
It is the right balance between thermal mass and insulation that guarantees a comfortable hemp house. It is a well-calculated ratio. Indeed, the heat accumulates in the mass (the lime) and is then gradually redistributed, which balances the temperature. The same process takes place in summer to bring freshness. The result is enveloping comfort and excellent resistance to extreme climate variations.
The chènevotte, thanks to its low density, has insulating properties but does not cut you from the outside. Therefore, the wall made of hemp and lime acts as a second skin, allowing gas exchanges. Its capacity to breathe and to control humidity makes it a perfect hygrometric regulator.
The soundproofing of the walls and the ionic radiation are huge advantages of building a hemp house. Besides, the hemp wall reflects heat and light. Hemp, with a very high mineral concentration, is a plant made of 70% silica. It would almost be vegetable quartz. Silica produces a vibration compatible with your own, and negative ions bringing well-being, health and improves the quality of life.
An ecological hemp house is also a unique and personalized living environment. Hemp and lime offer vast possibilities of textures and colors:
The choices are countless. Opt for noble materials and compose rich atmospheres in harmony with the environment.
