The article discusses the significant carbon footprint of the building and construction sectors, which account for at least a third of global greenhouse emissions. In response, researchers from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have proposed an unconventional solution involving lava. Their project, 'Lavaforming', envisions shaping lava flows from volcanic eruptions into sustainable construction materials. Collaborating with architects for the Venice Biennale, the project demonstrates the potential of using lava as building material by estimating that a fraction of a recent eruption could be used to construct thousands of buildings, showcasing the innovative possibilities for future urban design.
The VICTOR project offers the volcanology community a platform for performing simulations and computations related to magmatic and volcanic processes in an open-source environment.
Lavaforming imagines leveraging lava flows from eruptions to create sustainable building materials, potentially transforming urban landscapes into structures made of lava.
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