Wallness : nature et culture de l'isolant : construire en chaux-chanvre = nature and culture of insulation : building with hempcrete / une recherche menée par l'agence Barrault Pressacco ; en collaboration avec Sandrine Marceau et Giaime Meloni ; avec la contribution de Roberto Gargiani et d'Anna Rosellini.

[Paris] : Caryatide, [2024]
©2024

196 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts ; 32 cm

"A polyphonic, hybrid work, somewhere between a fine architectural book and a scientific essay, the result of research into contemporary forms of insulation. Wallness, through technical and cultural considerations, overturns the act of building and opens up a conversation. Insulation is now an integral part of the repertoire of architectural elements, while thermal engineering reveals unsuspected fields of construction. The quest for comfort in interior spaces calls into question the nature of the building envelope. Wallness expands the role of the wall, summoning up all its components and defining a new rationality. The issue of transparency is no longer limited to the visible, but extends to all the invisible chemical and physical phenomena passing through the wall. Wallness sees the solid as both a necessity and an unprecedented formal potential. As always, materials are at the heart of the revolution"--publisher's website.

9782493283221
2493283228

Insulation (Heat)
Hemp Design and construction.
Plant fibers as building materials.
Building materials Environmental aspects.
Sustainable architecture.
Sustainable construction.
Architecture durable.
Fibres végétales (Matériaux de construction)
Construction durable.
Chanvre.
Cannabis sativa (species)

Meloni, Giaime, author.
Marceau, Sandrine, author.
Rosellini, Anna, contributor.
Gargiani, Roberto, 1956- contributor.
Barrault Pressacco (Firm), author

Nature et culture de l'isolant : construire en chaux-chanvre
Nature and culture of insulation : building with hempcrete

Location: Library main 321008
Call No.: 321008
Copy: 1
Status: Available