Building from Waste

 29,95

Recovered Materials in Architecture and Construction

Building from Waste introduces an inventory of current projects and building elements, ranging from marketed products to advanced research and development like newspaper, wood or jeans denim used as isolating fibres.

Hardback: 200 pages / English / 225 x 287 mm

10 in stock (can be backordered)

Description

A key issue of sustainable design

”Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover“ is the sustainable guideline that has replaced the ”Take, Make, Waste“ attitude of the industrial age. Based on their background at the ETH Zurich and the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, the authors provide both a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource.

This book introduces an inventory of current projects and building elements, ranging from marketed products, among them façade panels made of straw and self-healing concrete, to advanced research and development like newspaper, wood or jeans denim used as isolating fibres. Going beyond the mere recycling aspect of reused materials, it looks into innovative concepts of how materials usually regarded as waste can be processed into new construction elements. The products are organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials.

A product directory presents all materials and projects in this book according to their functional uses in construction: load-bearing, self-supporting, insulating, waterproofing and finishing products.

  • The building practice side of the life cycle approach
  • Building materials from renewable resources
  • A systematic overview using specially produced drawings

Book type: Hardback
Published: 29 Sep 2014
ISBN: 978-3-03821-584-4

Additional information

Weight 1126 g
Dimensions 28,7 × 22,5 × 2,2 cm
Publisher

Birkhäuser

Country of Origin

Netherlands

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