
Building from Waste
Recovered Materials in Architecture and Construction
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2014
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-3-03821-584-4 (ISBN)
Description
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover" is the sustainable guideline that has replaced the "Take, Make, Waste" attitude of the industrial age. Based on their background at the ETH Zurich and the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, the authors provide both a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource. This book introduces an inventory of current projects and building elements, ranging from marketed products, among them façade panels made of straw and self-healing concrete, to advanced research and development like newspaper, wood or jeans denim used as isolating fibres. Going beyond the mere recycling aspect of reused materials, it looks into innovative concepts of how materials usually regarded as waste can be processed into new construction elements. The products are organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product directory presents all materials and projects in this book according to their functional uses in construction: load-bearing, self-supporting, insulating, waterproofing and finishing products.
Reviews / Votes
"Das Autorenteam von der ETH Zürich und dem Future Cities Laboratory in Singapur gibt hier erstmals einen systematischen Überblick über die aus Abfall als erneuerbarem Rohstoff produzierten Baumaterialien und -elemente und über ihre Anwendung in Architektur, Innenraumgestaltung und Produktdesign."
IBOmagazin 2/2015
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
15 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 265 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 70 s/w Zeichnungen
15 b/w and 265 col. img.70 b/w ld
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm
Width: 21 cm
Weight
1126 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-03821-584-4 (9783038215844)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Dirk E. Hebel | Marta H. Wisniewska | Felix Heisel
Building from Waste
Recovered Materials in Architecture and Construction
E-Book
09/2014
1st Edition
Birkhäuser
€29.95
Available for download
Persons
Dirk E. Hebel, Marta M. Wisniewska, Felix Heisel, ETH Zürich und Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore ETH Centre