Wow! eBook
Sustainable and Regenerative Materials for Architecture:A Sourcebook
by: Will McLean (Author), Pete Silver (Author)
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Publication Date: 2025-02-04
Language: English
Print Length: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1529433274
ISBN-13: 9781529433272
Book Description
Architects! Lead the change in responsible and creative material use. There is a creative explosion of work taking place in architecture and design schools exploring materials such as mycelium, clay/earth, engineered timber, bio-based plastics and algae. This handbook of low- and no-carbon materials for architects and designers focuses on sustainable materials, their sourcing, technical properties and the processes required for their use in architecture. The book showcases new and rediscovered processes for material fabrication, responsible sourcing and creative material design. Material properties (structural, thermal, fire, health and life safety) are described and case studies from around the world illustrate the inventive ways in which these materials have been deployed in the built environment. The book is designed as an introduction to the exciting and rapidly changing world of construction materials. With a better understanding of the social, environmental and economic sustainability of any given material - alongside its technical properties - students of architecture can lead the change in responsible and creative material use.CONTENTS1 Materials overview 2 Extractive materials:earth and clay concrete stone metals glass3 Grown materials:timber and cork paper hemp bamboo seaweed mycelium algae biopolymers wool
Editorial Reviews
Architects! Lead the change in responsible and creative material use. There is a creative explosion of work taking place in architecture and design schools exploring materials such as mycelium, clay/earth, engineered timber, bio-based plastics and algae. This handbook of low- and no-carbon materials for architects and designers focuses on sustainable materials, their sourcing, technical properties and the processes required for their use in architecture. The book showcases new and rediscovered processes for material fabrication, responsible sourcing and creative material design. Material properties (structural, thermal, fire, health and life safety) are described and case studies from around the world illustrate the inventive ways in which these materials have been deployed in the built environment. The book is designed as an introduction to the exciting and rapidly changing world of construction materials. With a better understanding of the social, environmental and economic sustainability of any given material - alongside its technical properties - students of architecture can lead the change in responsible and creative material use.CONTENTS1 Materials overview 2 Extractive materials:earth and clay concrete stone metals glass3 Grown materials:timber and cork paper hemp bamboo seaweed mycelium algae biopolymers wool
