Description:
NEXT GENERATION BUILDING MATERIALS
The 21st century faces a radical change in how we produce construction
materials - a shift towards cultivating, breeding, raising, farming, or
growing future resources.
This book presents innovative
industrialized production methods for cultivated building materials,
like cement grown by bacteria, bricks made of mushroom mycelium, or
bamboo fibers as reinforcement for concrete.
Spanning from
scientific research to product development and architectural
application, this book builds a bridge between the academic and the
professional world of architecture.
The book describes the
challenges, strategies, and goals in the first part, followed by a
second part on bamboo, A cultivated building material and a number of
examples in the third part which form the bridge from cultivated
materials to building products.
- Industrialized cultivated building materials
- Presentation of innovative products made of renewable resources
- Bridging of scientific research, product development and application
Review Quotes:
"[...] eine facettenreiche Tour d'horizon in ein sehr komplexes Thema [...] nicht nur für Fachleute, sondern auch für Laien ein Gewinn [...]"
In: archtektur atuell 1/2 (2019), 148