Habiter la menace
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À l'aube du XXIe siècle, il est communément admis que la nature, au même titre que le construit, est un artefact, une élaboration humaine. C'est clair, c'est l'héritage du XXe siècle. Ce qui est nouveau, toutefois, c'est que notre environnement, naturel et construit, soit désormais perçu, tant au plan symbolique que littéral, comme source de danger. La nature, la montagne(...)
Habiter la menace
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À l'aube du XXIe siècle, il est communément admis que la nature, au même titre que le construit, est un artefact, une élaboration humaine. C'est clair, c'est l'héritage du XXe siècle. Ce qui est nouveau, toutefois, c'est que notre environnement, naturel et construit, soit désormais perçu, tant au plan symbolique que littéral, comme source de danger. La nature, la montagne et l'air notamment, tout comme la ville en termes génériques, menacent l'être humain. Lothar, les avalanches de février 1999, les éboulements, sans parler des champs électromagnétiques et des gaz azotés, ont envahi les médias ; leurs images côtoient désormais celles, un peu fanées, des océans lointains aux eaux transparentes. En même temps, ce monde, où chacun prend les risques individuels les plus fous (base jumping, ski extrême...), n'accepte plus le risque collectif. Les ouvrages de protection se multiplient (digues, murs, etc.) et envahissent le paysage, sans discernement, avec la vigueur et la bonne conscience de l'investissement " utile " parce que nécessaire. Dans ce contexte, une réflexion architecturale doit s'engager. L'ouvrage de protection ne pourrait-il pas accueillir d'autres programmes ? La digue ne pourrait-elle pas être à la fois paravalanche et hôtel ? La chemise de protection d'un gros transformateur en milieu urbain ne pourrait-elle pas être tout ensemble mur et habitation ? Ce qui est hostile peut-il être hospitalier ? Ne pourrait-on pas habiter la menace ? Dans cet ouvrage, subtilement illustré, les textes d'un philosophe et d'une géographe côtoient ceux de quatre architectes dont les projets expriment le plaisir de renouveler une pensée architecturale qui apprivoiserait la menace, de repenser une pratique où faire, ce serait faire d'une pierre deux coups...
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"Design for life: the architecture of Sim Van der Ryn" surveys the work and principles of Sim Van der Ryn, a world leader in the field of sustainable architecture. Sharing his years of experience as a teacher and using his building designs as examples, the author shows us that buildings are not objects but organisms, and cities are not machines but complex ecosystems.(...)
May 2005, Salt Lake City
Design for life : the architecture of Sim Van der Ryn
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"Design for life: the architecture of Sim Van der Ryn" surveys the work and principles of Sim Van der Ryn, a world leader in the field of sustainable architecture. Sharing his years of experience as a teacher and using his building designs as examples, the author shows us that buildings are not objects but organisms, and cities are not machines but complex ecosystems. "Design for life" illustrates how Van der Ryn came to see the shifting patterns in nature and how these patterns profoundly affect how people live and work in the structures we build. Van der Ryn explores how architecture has created physical and mental barriers that separate people from the natural world, and how to recover the soul of architecture and reconnect with our natural surroundings. Appointed California State Architect by then-Governor Jerry Brown, Van der Ryn introduced the nation's first energy-efficient government building projects. His vision heralded a Golden Age of ecologically sensitive design and resulted in the adoption of strict energy standards and disability access standards for all state buildings and parks. Van der Ryn has helped inspire architects to see the myriad ways they can apply physical and social ecology to architecture and environmental design.
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"Small Strawbale" is a meditative exploration of the innumerable reasons to consider strawbale as a viable building material. Environmentally friendly, super insulative, economical, and natural, strawbale can be used to build everything from garden walls to small homes. "Small Strawbale" tells the stories of people who have successfully created structures out of this(...)
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April 2005, Layton, Utah
Small strawbale : natural homes, projects & designs
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"Small Strawbale" is a meditative exploration of the innumerable reasons to consider strawbale as a viable building material. Environmentally friendly, super insulative, economical, and natural, strawbale can be used to build everything from garden walls to small homes. "Small Strawbale" tells the stories of people who have successfully created structures out of this easily replenishable building material, reminding us that our human roots are ultimately grounded and dependent upon the earth and its bounties. This practical guide is filled with rich photos of homes, greenhouses, studios, sheds, open-air structures and more, each pulsating with unique yet subtle creativity. Both a pragmatic construction manual and a philosophical, artistic guidebook, "Small Strawbale" is an inspirational starting point for a strawbale dreamer, and a great source of information for those who are ready to get bailing.
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A visually dynamic, front-end resource tool that allows architects, builders and owners to explore and envision opportunities to use tree-free, recycled and certified wood materials and systems before projects begin. “Building with Vision” offers concise overviews, at-a-glance advantages and challenges, original photographs, resources for further research, dozens of case(...)
Building with vision : optimizing and finding alternatives to wood
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A visually dynamic, front-end resource tool that allows architects, builders and owners to explore and envision opportunities to use tree-free, recycled and certified wood materials and systems before projects begin. “Building with Vision” offers concise overviews, at-a-glance advantages and challenges, original photographs, resources for further research, dozens of case studies and sidebars that encourage healthy construction by minimizing forest destruction. It is a must-have resource for architecture studios, contractors, homeowners, and others concerned about the ecological impacts of building projects. Topics Included: Construction Without Destruction (Randy Hayes); Building as the Forest Mattered (Sim Van der Ryn); The Case for Local Solutions; FSC-Certified, Recycled and Salvaged Wood; Framing Siding and Sheathing Options; Insulated Structural Systems; Natural Building Methods; Recycled Materials and Resource Recovery; Surface and Finish Materials; extensive resource directories. This is Volume Two of the Wood Reduction Trilogy.
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February 2005, Healdsburg, California
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New wood architecture
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A detailed and timely look at the resourceful ways wood is being used in some of the world’s most innovative new buildings. Despite its legacy as a traditional building material, timber is experiencing a renaissance as contemporary architects and designers increasingly come to appreciate its sustainability, versatility, and beauty. Lavishly illustrated with over 300(...)
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April 2005, New
New wood architecture
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A detailed and timely look at the resourceful ways wood is being used in some of the world’s most innovative new buildings. Despite its legacy as a traditional building material, timber is experiencing a renaissance as contemporary architects and designers increasingly come to appreciate its sustainability, versatility, and beauty. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs and drawings, "New Wood Architecture" features over 40 contemporary projects from around the world by leading architects including Shigeru Ban, Roberto Briccola, Santiago Calatrava, Steven Holl, Herzog + Partner, Herzog and de Meuron, Peter Hübner, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and Peter Zumthor. Ruth Slavid examines the innovative ways timber is currently being handled and how its use has been expanded by new technologies and experiments with traditional building methods. Featured topics include wood’s natural properties in rural landscapes; its heritage as a vernacular building material; its pragmatic and cost-efficient properties; its versatility; current technological innovations such as the uses of engineered products, laminates, plywoods, and chipboards; the ways wood can be combined with other materials to enhance its structural properties; and its use as a recycled or “green” material in some of the most beautiful and experimental plans being constructed today.
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Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's completed housing and community-based building projects, this book documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook-from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on(...)
Building a straw bale house : the Red Feather construction handbook
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Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's completed housing and community-based building projects, this book documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook-from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on safety, design, tools, and materials, it is an inspiring lesson for anybody interested in this technique of constructing a house and a hopeful redefinition of the fundamental ideas of architecture and the home. Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall
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"Les choses changent. Les rêves et les visions d'aujourd'hui seront peut-être la réalité de demain. Nous pourrions faire un usage plus simple des technologies modernes. L'architecture et les installations climatiques devront changer, tout autant qu'évoluent nos idées sur l'utilisation de l'énergie. Les possibilités de capter les énergies passives naturelles pour(...)
Manuel d'architecture naturelle
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"Les choses changent. Les rêves et les visions d'aujourd'hui seront peut-être la réalité de demain. Nous pourrions faire un usage plus simple des technologies modernes. L'architecture et les installations climatiques devront changer, tout autant qu'évoluent nos idées sur l'utilisation de l'énergie. Les possibilités de capter les énergies passives naturelles pour alimenter notre cadre de vie sont immenses. " David Wright
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January 2005, Marseille
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To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the product of extractive processes. Driven by greedy economies, the global enterprise of space production expands, impacting climate, earth, water, humans, and non-humans(...)
A moratorium on new construction
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To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the product of extractive processes. Driven by greedy economies, the global enterprise of space production expands, impacting climate, earth, water, humans, and non-humans everywhere. However housing is both a human right and the mandate of design disciplines: How to navigate the need for housing versus the destructive practice of construction? To pause new construction—even if momentarily, creates a radical thinking framework for alternatives to the current regime of space production and its suspect growth imperative. Engaging with unsettling questions, "A moratorium on new construction" envisions a massive value shift for our existing stock.
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Comment « habiter » aujourd’hui et demain? Face aux multiples défis auxquels le monde est confronté – changement climatique, raréfaction des ressources, vieillissement démographique, migrations, crise sanitaire, disparités sociales –, nos lieux de vie sont amenés à se réinventer dans le respect de la planète, mais tout en préservant le patrimoine, l’esthétique ou encore(...)
Habiter durable : Au coeur des quartiers
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Comment « habiter » aujourd’hui et demain? Face aux multiples défis auxquels le monde est confronté – changement climatique, raréfaction des ressources, vieillissement démographique, migrations, crise sanitaire, disparités sociales –, nos lieux de vie sont amenés à se réinventer dans le respect de la planète, mais tout en préservant le patrimoine, l’esthétique ou encore l’harmonie intergénérationnelle. À l’aide d’exemples concrets, cet ouvrage s’attache à montrer que l’échelle du quartier dans lequel on habite, se déplace, travaille et se détend est pertinente pour agir, car ces morceaux de ville fonctionnent comme des rouages essentiels du métabolisme urbain. Ils informent sur les mécanismes en marche et sur les transformations à venir, mais, en tant que structures à dimension humaine, ils permettent également de penser la ville du point de vue des communautés, des familles, de l’individu. Ces quartiers durables à multiples facettes peuvent ainsi faire office de laboratoires pour expérimenter l’urbanisme du futur.
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Climate-friendly construction is essential if we are to ensure that future generations can enjoy comfortable living spaces. Design and the choice of materials help to considerably reduce the climate impact of buildings. The techniques featured in this book come from all five climatic zones and many are drawn from non-European and bygone societies. The low-tech approaches,(...)
Architecture follows climate: Traditional architecture in the five climate zones
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Climate-friendly construction is essential if we are to ensure that future generations can enjoy comfortable living spaces. Design and the choice of materials help to considerably reduce the climate impact of buildings. The techniques featured in this book come from all five climatic zones and many are drawn from non-European and bygone societies. The low-tech approaches, illustrated in schematic drawings and explained in texts, are a source of inspiration for the design of sustainable and energy-autonomous building structures. "Architecture follows climate" provides the first in-depth and comprehensive overview of passive building techniques that have been tried and tested for centuries.
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