Description
| Product ID: | 9780847843725 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | Sustainable |
| Subtitle: | Houses with Small Footprints |
| Authors: | Author: Avi Friedman |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Residential buildings, domestic buildings |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Rizzoli International Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Rizzoli International Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-03-17 |