Making The Plus / editor, Marianne Preus Jacobsen.

Title & Author:

Making The Plus / editor, Marianne Preus Jacobsen.

Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2024]
©2024

Description:

201 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Someone has to take the lead if we are to accelerate the green shift / by Marianne Preus Jacobsen -- Plus, ça change: Vestre, BIG and the Clean Factory / by Susannah Hagan -- Construction, photography by Einar Aslaksen Dec 2020-Jan 2023 -- Roundtable: A new standard for industrial sustainability -- Operation, photography by Einar Aslaksen Feb 2022-Jan 2023 -- Elements of The Plus.

Summary:

Industrial factories are major contributors to air pollution, toxic spills, and the emission of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Manufacturing remains critically important to both the developing and the advanced world, but it must change. Fast. In 2020, the Norwegian design furniture manufacturer Vestre decided to prove that another future of industrial production is possible. Together with the Danish architects of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) they worked out plans for a green factory while preserving the surrounding recreational Norwegian forests: The Plus. The wooden building has been planned to achieve the world?s highest sustainability rating, BREEAM Outstanding, as well as to be a public space, a destination for people to visit and enjoy. Thus began a challenging yet exciting journey toward building ?the world?s most environmentally friendly furniture factory.? 'Making The Plus' takes readers through the construction process of the world?s most environmentally friendly furniture factory, documented from the very beginning by renowned photographer Einar Aslaksen. It also broadens our view on how architecture, industry, nature, and public space must be completely intertwined in our move toward a sustainable future. It aims to be a manifesto for the green transition.
"Industrial production is considered one of the biggest sources of pollution in the world. In 2020, Norwegian furniture manufacturer Vestre decided to prove that a different future is possible. Together with architects from the Danish Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Vestre drew up plans for a green factory deep in the Norwegian forests: Making The Plus not only takes you through the construction process of the "world's most sustainable furniture factory," documented by renowned photographer Einar Aslaksen. It also broadens our view on how architecture, industry, nature, and the public space have to be completely intertwined moving toward a sustainable future" -- Publisher's description from website.

ISBN:

9783775754231 (paperback)
3775754237 (paperback)

Subject:

Vestre (Firm)
Sustainable architecture.
Sustainable construction.
Sustainable development.
Architecture durable.
Construction durable.
Développement durable.
sustainable development.

Added entries:

Jacobsen, Marianne Preus, editor.
Aslaksen, Einar, photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320719
Call No.: 320719
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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