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"XXL-XS" represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book.(...)
XXL-XS: new directions on ecological design
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"XXL-XS" represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book. At one extreme are massive public works, at the other, micro to nano-sized interventions that can have equally profound impacts on our world. From terraforming to bio-manufacturing, a whole new generation of designers is proposing unique ways of confronting the difficult challenges ahead. In this way design becomes a totality of relationships that affects all disciplines, which can no-longer be thought of as self-contained fields, each handled separately by narrowly focused specialists. Globalization demands a restructuring of the profession, as we know it. This requires a new breed of generalists who can work across fields and engage research on multiple sites around the globe. Today we need planetary designers versed in the craft of integral design. Our thesis is therefore both global and performative in scope. We need an architecture that is more than just a constellation of bio-picturesque images, digitally generated surface effects, and conventional materials. We seek a holistic architecture that uses the best techniques to connect directly with existing natural systems while creating a renewed ecology that can sustain itself well into the future. Along these lines, many of the projects featured in this book simply abandon the old tropes and construction processes of the past by creating numerous green alternatives that proliferate along unexpected pathways.
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"SOUPERgreen!" features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to “green” architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to address the challenges posed by the environmental crisis. In sharp contrast to contemporary examples of “green” or “sustainable” architecture—which primarily rely upon the(...)
SOUPERgreen!: souped-up green architecture
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"SOUPERgreen!" features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to “green” architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to address the challenges posed by the environmental crisis. In sharp contrast to contemporary examples of “green” or “sustainable” architecture—which primarily rely upon the invisible agency of unremarkable technologies and materials to reduce resource consumption, but which do so without producing a necessary shift in the public’s perception of the environment or behavior towards it—"SOUPERgreen!" demonstrates how green technology can not only perform from a measurable standpoint, but can also produce engaging experiences that profoundly alter, enhance, and transform the public’s understanding of the environment. By leveraging the inherently expressive nature of technology in order to dramatize the constantly negotiated relationship between humanity and the natural world, the “souped-up” green architecture featured in "SOUPERgreen!" transforms “greenness” from a mere measurement of environmental performance into an actively engaged and highly conscious lived reality—resulting in a new way of experiencing and understanding the environment that is inherently more ecological.
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This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design over a period of three years. Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design and construction of industrial building types, especially waste-to-energy facilities. As densities increase and consumption patterns(...)
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Architecture and waste: a (re)planned obsolescence
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This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design over a period of three years. Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design and construction of industrial building types, especially waste-to-energy facilities. As densities increase and consumption patterns change, the need for more waste-to-energy facilities is only going to increase. Through comparing the well-established waste-to-energy industries in Sweden with less established engagements in the northeast of the United States, opportunities and lessons are revealed. Architects have a role to play in integrating waste-to-energy plants physically and programmatically within their urban or suburban contexts, as well as potentially lessening the generally negative perception of energy recovery plants. These hybrid WTE building typologies have the potential not only re-connect and communicate to the public, but also weave new public or institutional programs with energy production in a mutually beneficial way.
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Material intelligence, simulations, sensors, actuators, as well as the bio-mimetic and digital manufacturing innovations provide revolutionary ideas on growth, adaptability, repair, sensitivity, replication and energy savings in architecture. Should we continue constructing rigid and fixed structures? Or can our habitats begin to think?
Self-sufficient habitat: 5th advanced architecture contest
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Material intelligence, simulations, sensors, actuators, as well as the bio-mimetic and digital manufacturing innovations provide revolutionary ideas on growth, adaptability, repair, sensitivity, replication and energy savings in architecture. Should we continue constructing rigid and fixed structures? Or can our habitats begin to think?
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Cet ouvrage présente les principaux matériaux de l'architecture: le bois et les matériaux de la biomasse, l'acier, les bétons et les liants hydrauliques, les roches naturelles, le verre et les polymères, les matériaux biosourcés. Chacun d'eux fait l'objet d'une description détaillée (contexte historique de leur utilisation, composition et procédés de transformation,(...)
Matériaux et architecture durable : fabrication 2e éd.
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Cet ouvrage présente les principaux matériaux de l'architecture: le bois et les matériaux de la biomasse, l'acier, les bétons et les liants hydrauliques, les roches naturelles, le verre et les polymères, les matériaux biosourcés. Chacun d'eux fait l'objet d'une description détaillée (contexte historique de leur utilisation, composition et procédés de transformation, propriétés architecturales, constructives et physiques) et d'un bilan environnemental (impact énergétique de leur fabrication, territoires de production et transport, mise en oeuvre sur le chantier, entretien et fin de vie).
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Grâce à l'intégration d'espaces verts dans les villes, les jardins verticaux combinent le domaine de l'architecture et du paysagisme tout en proposant des solutions de jardinage pour des espaces limités et eh combattant la présence dominante du béton, du métal et du verre. Cet ouvrage expose les meilleurs exemples et les plus innovants projets de jardins verticaux(...)
Murs végétaux : manuel pratique + 42 projets
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Grâce à l'intégration d'espaces verts dans les villes, les jardins verticaux combinent le domaine de l'architecture et du paysagisme tout en proposant des solutions de jardinage pour des espaces limités et eh combattant la présence dominante du béton, du métal et du verre. Cet ouvrage expose les meilleurs exemples et les plus innovants projets de jardins verticaux construits autour du monde. De plus, ce livre comprend une méticuleuse introduction technique qui fournira les notions nécessaires aux architectes et aux designers pour concevoir ce type d'oeuvre. Les jardins verticaux deviennent plus populaires et sont de plus en plus présents dans nos villes. Les projets sélectionnés font preuve d'une grande variété et diversité de jardins verticaux. Chaque exemple est illustré de belles photographies et expliqué avec des textes fournis par les propres concepteurs, devenant une source d'inspiration pour tout architecte, étudiant et individu intéressé par la conception urbanistique.
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This book highlights some of the historical sources of ecological approaches that are currently reshaping the architectural field, especially in the work of architects such as Aldo van Eyck, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling and others. This volume follows the paradigmatic shift in thinking about the built environment as something inherently contextual and(...)
Habitat: ecology thinking in architecture
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This book highlights some of the historical sources of ecological approaches that are currently reshaping the architectural field, especially in the work of architects such as Aldo van Eyck, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling and others. This volume follows the paradigmatic shift in thinking about the built environment as something inherently contextual and relational. By demonstrating the continuities, disruptions and transformations at stake, 'Habitat' deepens the ongoing conversation, while suggesting directions for future research.
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Comment saboter un pipeline
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Confrontant l’histoire des luttes passées à l’immense défi du réchauffement climatique, Andreas Malm interroge un précepte tenace du mouvement pour le climat : la non-violence et le respect de la propriété privée. Contre lui, il rappelle que les combats des suffragettes ou pour les droits civiques n’ont pas été gagnés sans perte ni fracas, et ravive une longue tradition(...)
Comment saboter un pipeline
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Confrontant l’histoire des luttes passées à l’immense défi du réchauffement climatique, Andreas Malm interroge un précepte tenace du mouvement pour le climat : la non-violence et le respect de la propriété privée. Contre lui, il rappelle que les combats des suffragettes ou pour les droits civiques n’ont pas été gagnés sans perte ni fracas, et ravive une longue tradition de sabotage des infrastructures fossiles. La violence comporte des périls, mais le statu quo nous condamne. Nous devons apprendre à lutter dans un monde en feu.
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Les disciplines de la transformation de l’espace sont en première ligne pour orienter nos sociétés, nos villes et nos territoires sur la voie d’un métabolisme décarboné et d’une empreinte écologique globale qui ne dépasse pas les capacités de renouvellement des ressources planétaires. Cette transition, une dynamique engageant une reconsidération fondamentale de nos modes(...)
Dessiner la transition : dispositifs pour une métropole écologique
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Les disciplines de la transformation de l’espace sont en première ligne pour orienter nos sociétés, nos villes et nos territoires sur la voie d’un métabolisme décarboné et d’une empreinte écologique globale qui ne dépasse pas les capacités de renouvellement des ressources planétaires. Cette transition, une dynamique engageant une reconsidération fondamentale de nos modes de vies, constitue désormais le dessein premier du projet architectural, urbain et paysager. Quels dispositifs socio-spatiaux, quels processus, quels systèmes, quelles échelles, quelles temporalités, quelles métriques et quelles valeurs ce dernier doit-il recomposer ou réinventer ? Dessiner les nouvelles lignes directrices de la transition, c’est l’objectif qui anime ce livre issu d’une coopération fertile et imaginative entre la Fondation Braillard Architectes de Genève et le Metrolab Brussels.
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In contrast to a decade ago, when ecological architecture was considered a luxury, it has now become essentially impossible to build without considering sustainability issues. Aspects of ecological balance have become an important part in the planning and construction process. In recent years, a canon of standard methods and possibilities has emerged to achieve this goal(...)
Ecological buildings: new strategies for sustainable architecture
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In contrast to a decade ago, when ecological architecture was considered a luxury, it has now become essentially impossible to build without considering sustainability issues. Aspects of ecological balance have become an important part in the planning and construction process. In recent years, a canon of standard methods and possibilities has emerged to achieve this goal of environmentally friendly architecture. However, there are architects whose ideas and techniques for sustainable buildings go beyond the standards that have now been established such as the LEED rating system and are sometimes also mandatory. This publication discusses such new and innovative solutions for ecological construction. The author presents projects from all over the world that stand out from the standard measures and concepts and point the way to the future.
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