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"  Watch out, beer can house, there&amp;#039;s a new construction material in town \u2014 seaweed. While your closest encounter with this gift from the sea may have been in a bowl of Chinese soup or wrapped around your sushi, citizens of L\u00E6s\u00F8, Denmark, once used seaweed to construct their homes. And one organization hopes a new seaweed home will bring the practice back. Seaweed collects on the shore and turns out to be quite the useful housing material. According to DeZeen, it&amp;#039;s fireproof and non-toxic in addition to insulating. Despite its positive effect on the environment (more seaweed means less wood), the practice of building seaweed homes in L\u00E6s\u00F8 fell away, but non-profit organization Realdania Byg hopes to resurrect the tradition. That&amp;#039;s where the Modern Seaweed House comes in. Design company Vandkunsten married the old practice of seaweed construction with new building practices to create a modern, environmentally-friendly building. Realdania Byg hopes it will spark an ongoing effort to build sustainable houses, restore old seaweed houses, and innovate this construction technique further. Would you live in a seaweed house? Find more great food content on Delish:   Search for the perfect recipe from our homepage  Find out the latest food news Get a recipe book to save your favorite dishes Sign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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