BUILDING FROM WASTE

Description

Building from Waste. Recovered Materials in Architecture and Construction

• The building practice side of the life cycle approach
• Building materials from renewable resources
• A systematic overview using specially produced drawings

”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.

CONTENTS

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Building from Waste
• City and Refuse: Self-reliant Systems and Urban Terrains
• Hands Off: Urban Mining!: A Plea for the Re-evaluation of Substandard Housing
• Densified Waste Materials
• Reconfigured Waste Materials
• Transformed Waste Materials
• Designed Waste Materials
• Organic Waste Design: A New Culture of Designed Waste Products
• Cultivated Waste Materials
• Product Directory
• Appendix

200 pages, 265 colour illustrations, 70 black & white line drawings / 22 x 28,5 cm / English