Sustainability has advanced to become an overarching concern of daily life. At the same time, its ways and means are far from clear. As a holistic praxis, sustainability must combine technical and material as well as social, economic and ecological s...Lasīt vairāk
Adapting to Urban Heat: Strategies and Tools for Resilience in Low Carbon Cities provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the issues associated with adapting to climate change and building urban resilience. The books editors have...Lasīt vairāk
Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the...Lasīt vairāk
Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the...Lasīt vairāk
A unique and daring collection of homes and the stories of those who have changed their lives by changing their surroundings, from YouTube sensation Kirsten Dirksen and Nicolįs Boullosa of kirstendirksen / faircompanies For most people,...Lasīt vairāk
Earth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands of years, has in the past thirty years attracted renewed attention as a healthy, environment-friendly and economical building material. What needs to be considered in this context? Th...Lasīt vairāk
The book explores essential principles and practices for planning and designing sustainable refugee shelters. With millions of people forced to flee their homes annually due to conflict, environmental disasters, or persecution, the urgency of this...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines green transition and circular economy in the fields of building design and Real Estate management. By outlining windows for seizing the opportunity to integrate circular approaches in current building practices, the book provide...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Sep-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781957183749)
Creating the Regenerative School profiling case studies from around the world that exemplify best practices in creating healthy, climate appropriate learning environments for early learners through high school with designs that are not only beauti...Lasīt vairāk
Through architectural photography, technical diagrams, and expert prose, this book explores the environmental benefits as well as stylish and innovative uses of mass timber in commercial buildings.Prized for its ability to sequester carbon, m...Lasīt vairāk
This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change....Lasīt vairāk
This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Mar-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Rizzoli International Publications, ISBN-13: 9780789345103)
Changing lifestyles and economic condictions as well as ecological concerns have fueled a move to smaller, more efficient living spaces. This book includes the most cutting-edge, effective, and appealing breakthroughs in home design and architect...Lasīt vairāk
Founded by Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi as a design network between Milan, London and Mumbai, OBR explores new modes of contemporary living, developing an architecture that responds sensitively to and stimulates interaction with its environ...Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on the utilization of wastes produced from plastic usage by industry and consumers, along with the partial to full replacement of conventional cement as a primary binder material in concrete. This book demonstrates how to use pos...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines green transition and circular economy in the fields of building design and Real Estate management. By outlining windows for seizing the opportunity to integrate circular approaches in current building practices, the book provide...Lasīt vairāk
Sustainability is to become the guiding principle of social action and economic activity. At the same time, its ways and means are far from clear. As a holistic praxis, sustainability must combine technical and material as well as social, economi...Lasīt vairāk
One timber prefab building turns into a litany of conversations, research and essays on responsible yet habitable environmentsThe Proto-Habitat is both a theoretical and practical (built) experiment to explore ways of dwell...Lasīt vairāk
Without reservations, DOWN TO EARTH starts from the observation that the climate crisis is a given, and that we are already in over our heads. Can we then still redesign our living environment to ensure a sustainable balance, also with all other lif...Lasīt vairāk
Conventional building skins are constructed as static structures upon the typical design conditions in terms of external climate and internal occupant activities. This generates dissociation between the envelope structure and its environment. With...Lasīt vairāk
The Distributed Workplace provides in one volume essential information on sustainable work environments which will be invaluable to those developing workplace strategies for end-user organizations as well as suppliers of office buildings, information...Lasīt vairāk
