Hemp Wall Section Study

Titles

Hemp Wall Section Study · 汉麻墙体构造样段 / Hemp 墙体

Status

Design / Fabrication planned

People

• leadKaiwen LiuDesign, modeling and drawings
• co-authorName withheld until consentCourse group member
• collaboratorName withheld until consentCourse instructor

Key images

Highlights

• 2026-10-13VersionV12: the wall base and floor sit on the same plywood display box, so the whole sample stands on one box.
• 2026-10-28DrawingV17: one grooved 16×8×8 block for the whole wall. MonkeyHub produced mold drawings M-101–M-104, and Kaiwen built the molds from the plywood drawings the same day.
• 2026-10-29TestM-105 1:1 cutting template (36×24 in), cut and laid out by MonkeyHub; largest deviation measured in the PDF: 0.0005 in.
• 2026-10-29VersionV18: back to an NLT floor inserted into the hemp wall; one wall takes 8 large and 2 small blocks and stands 40 in tall. Kaiwen decided on 10 molds (8 + 2); Working set to V18.

Drawings, versions and releases

• 2026-10-13VersionV7: following the red circles on the Board, the wall base and floor became NLT members; the roof sample stayed as it was.
• 2026-10-13VersionV10: purchasing and cut lists, details, model, quantity check, component schedule, drawings and renders all come from one script; the NLT at the wall base switched to whole 2x8s.
• 2026-10-13VersionV12: the wall base and floor sit on the same plywood display box, so the whole sample stands on one box.
• 2026-10-21VersionV15, V16: after Kaiwen's corrections, a flush section cut, no columns, and a single sheathing layer on the floor; Working set to V16.
• 2026-10-28DrawingV17: one grooved 16×8×8 block for the whole wall. MonkeyHub produced mold drawings M-101–M-104, and Kaiwen built the molds from the plywood drawings the same day.
• 2026-10-29VersionV18: back to an NLT floor inserted into the hemp wall; one wall takes 8 large and 2 small blocks and stands 40 in tall. Kaiwen decided on 10 molds (8 + 2); Working set to V18.
• 2026-10-29DrawingV18 section A-301 and mold drawings M-101–M-104 (cutting for 10 molds and casting steps) produced by MonkeyHub; the layout check found 0 issues.

Question

How should a hemp-lime block wall meet an NLT floor so that a 1:1 sample can be built from materials available in New York on a student budget?

Method

For each version, one script generates the model, component schedule, drawings and renders. MonkeyHub registers the candidate, cuts sections, lays out sheets with an approved skill and puts them on the Board, where Kaiwen annotates and picks a version.

Claims

MonkeyHub cut and laid out the 1:1 cutting template; the largest deviation measured in the PDF is 0.0005 in. (ev-12)

Limitations

The model checks cover geometric contact and materials only; structure, envelope performance and construction details have not been professionally reviewed.

Research lines

construction-material, ai-design-tools

Failures and superseded routes

• 2026-10-29SupersededV17 (one grooved block for the whole wall, two floor options) superseded by V18.
• 2026-10-14SupersededThe floor-standing plinth line (V11b, V11c) was tried and dropped; the display went back to V12's one table plus one plywood box.
• 2026-10-14FailureTwo sessions wrote to the same project at once, and V13 rebuilt the geometry of V11b; it was not used. Since then, a session reads the other session's record before writing.

Software used

monkeyhub, monkeyhub/monkeyarch, monkeyhub/monkeydiagram, monkeyhub/monkeyboard

Releases and tests

• 2026-10-29TestM-105 1:1 cutting template (36×24 in), cut and laid out by MonkeyHub; largest deviation measured in the PDF: 0.0005 in.