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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
Publicado: |
Basel ; Boston :
Birkhäuser,
[2017]
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Colección: | Cultivated building materials
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Temas: | |
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