Sustainable - Houses with Small Footprints
Author(s): Avi Friedman
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
- : Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
- : 1.48325
- : 01 February 2015
- : 229mm X 229mm
- : United States
- : 01 May 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : 336
- : 515
- : Hardback
- : Avi Friedman