Sustainable environments
by Chan, Yenna
This series provides a powerful presentation of the most challenging and evolving architectural and design categories. "Sustainable Environments" focuses on the type of architectural details in distinctive, sustainable residential spaces. It includes sections on components, such as cooling or shading devices, building techniques that create minimal impact on the land, active systems and the use of new sustainable materials, as well as those that are salvaged or recyclable. The book presents rec…
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- Full title :Sustainable environments / Yenna Chen.
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This series provides a powerful presentation of the most challenging and evolving architectural and design categories. "Sustainable Environments" focuses on the type of architectural details in distinctive, sustainable residential spaces. It includes sections on components, such as cooling or shading devices, building techniques that create minimal impact on the land, active systems and the use of new sustainable materials, as well as those that are salvaged or recyclable. The book presents recent work by architects from around the globe in colour photographs and architectural drawings, and is structured according to categories of architectural detail.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Rockport, RotoVision, distributor
- Place of Publication:Gloucester, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Originally published: 2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:192 pages : : color illustrations ; : 28 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781592535040, 1592535046
- oclc:ocn213847277
- LC Classification:NA7110
- Dewey Decimal:720.47
Table of Contents
Response to place. Site specificity ; Site conservation -- Connection to habitat. Bioregionalism ; Environmental interface -- Conservation of resources. Alternative energy sources ; Hyrdrological systems -- Use of building materials. Elemental and experimental materials ; Salvaged and recycled materials -- Directory of architects and designers.
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