Sustainable environments

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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 color photographs and architectural drawings, and is structured according …

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Title Statements

Full title :Sustainable environments / Yenna Chan.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rockport Publishers
Place of Publication:Gloucester, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (192 pages) : : chiefly illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781616735937, 1616735937
oclc:ocn781967248
LC Classification:NA7110
Dewey Decimal:720/.47

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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Architecture -- 21e siècle Architecture -- Détails ARCHITECTURE -- Sustainability & Green … Architecture durable Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Modern Architecture, Modern -- 21st century Sustainable architecture