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Cultivated building materials : industrialized natural resources for architecture and construction /

"The 21st century will face a radical paradigm change in how we produce construction materials--a shift towards cultivating, breeding, raising, farming, or growing future resources. The book presents new industrialized production methods and innovative cultivated building materials, like cement...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hebel, Dirk (Editor ), Heisel, Felix (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2017]
Colección:Cultivated building materials
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Challenges, Strategies, and Goals
  • Introduction: Cultivated Building Materials
  • Production Back to The City
  • The Ape of Materials
  • The Industrialization of Timber
  • A Case Study
  • Standardization of a Natural Resource
  • Bamboo, a Cultivated Building Material
  • Introduction
  • Constructing with Engineered Bamboo
  • Upscaling The Bamboo Industry
  • The Ecological Impact of Industrially Cultivated Bamboo
  • Engineered Bamboo Products
  • A Sustainable Choice?
  • From Cultivated Materials to Building Products
  • Soil-Dependent Products. Agriculture
  • Wood Foam
  • Biopolymers: Cement Replacement
  • Biopolymers and Biocomposites Based on Agricultural Residues
  • Lignin-based Carbon Fibres
  • Nutrient-Dependent, Soil-Independent Products. Biotechnology
  • Fungal Mycelium Bio-Materials
  • Limestone-producing Bacteria: Self-healing Concrete
  • Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate: Multilayer/Multimaterial Coatings on Non-conductive Materials
  • Bio-Inspired Products. Biomimicry
  • Replicating Natural Design Strategies In Bio-Inspired Composites
  • Living Architecture (Liar): Metabolically Engineered Building Units
  • About the Authors and Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index of Persons, Firms, and Institutions
  • Index of Projects, Buildings, and Places