A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. Have we passed a tipping point beyond which we can no longer reverse a course of action that was charted several decades ago Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints argues that we can indeed detach our dwellings from a dependence on many external systems and resources and adopt other building practices.
What is known as living off the grid is possible, and Sustainable presents forty-five houses that demonstrate how architects have implemented sustainable design concepts around the world. These projects show us what time-tested vernacular design principles-including local materials, natural ventilation strategies, and earth shelter construction-can teach us, as well as how the latest cutting-edge technologies-such as indoor farming and "living walls" made of plant material-can make truly sustainable design possible.
The variety and ingenuity of the projects featured here make Sustainable a uniquely coherent and authoritative volume on sustainable residential design.
| ISBN: | 9780847843725 |
| Publication date: | 17th March 2015 |
| Author: | Avi Friedman |
| Publisher: | Rizzoli International Publications an imprint of Rizzoli |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Genres: |
Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design Materials in architecture Architectural structure and design Architecture: residential and domestic buildings |
A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. Have we passed a tipping point beyond which we can no longer reverse a course of action that was charted several decades ago Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints argues that we can indeed detach our dwellings from a dependence on many external systems and resources and adopt other building practices.
Sustainable features in the following genres: Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design, Materials in architecture, Architectural structure and design, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings
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Sustainable was written by Avi Friedman and published by Rizzoli International Publications an imprint of Rizzoli
Sustainable has 336 pages