Cultivated Building Materials : : Industrialized Natural Resources for Architecture and Construction / / Dirk E. Hebel, Felix Heisel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Hebel, Dirk E.,; Heisel, Felix,
• MitwirkendeR: Adamatzky, Andrew,; Aigner, Nikita,; Armstrong, Rachel,; Axegård, Peter,; Blaschek, Jasmine Alia,; Bunzel, Frauke,; Böck, Felix,; Caldwell, Gary S.,; Carnelli, Davide,; Dahy, Hanaa,; Edwards, Peter,; Edwards-Widmer, Yvonne,; Ferracina, Simone,; García, José Luis,; Hanczyc, Martin M.,; Hebel, Dirk E.,; Heisel, Felix,; Ieropoulos, Ioannis,; Imhof, Barbara,; Javadian, Alireza,; Jonkers, Henk M.,; Knippers, Jan,; Kulshreshtha, Yask,; Lee, Simon,; Lucrezia, Davide de,; Lugt, Pablo van der,; Läpple, Dieter,; Moravánszky, Ákos,; Müller, Philipp,; Natalio, Filipe,; Nogales, Juan,; Paassen, Leon van,; Phillips, Neil,; Rimbu, Gimi,; Ritter, Nina,; Ross, Phil,; Schlesier, Karsten,; Studart, André R.,; Tomani, Per,; Ziegert, Christof,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)

NEXT GENERATION BUILDING MATERIALS The 21st century faces a radical change in how we produce construction materials – a shift towards cultivating, breeding, raising, farming, or growing future resources. This book presents innovative industrialized production methods for cultivated building material...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Challenges, Strategies, and Goals
• Introduction: Cultivated Building Materials
• Production Back to The City
• The Ape of Materials
• The Industrialization of Timber – A Case Study
• Standardization of a Natural Resource
• Bamboo, a Cultivated Building Material
• Introduction
• Constructing with Engineered Bamboo
• Upscaling The Bamboo Industry
• The Ecological Impact of Industrially Cultivated Bamboo
• Engineered Bamboo Products – A Sustainable Choice?
• From Cultivated Materials to Building Products
• Soil-Dependent Products. Agriculture
• Wood Foam
• Biopolymers: Cement Replacement
• Biopolymers and Biocomposites Based on Agricultural Residues
• Lignin-based Carbon Fibres
• Nutrient-Dependent, Soil-Independent Products. Biotechnology
• Fungal Mycelium Bio-Materials
• Limestone-producing Bacteria: Self-healing Concrete
• Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate: Multilayer/Multimaterial Coatings on Non-conductive Materials
• Bio-Inspired Products. Biomimicry
• Replicating Natural Design Strategies In Bio-Inspired Composites
• Living Architecture (Liar): Metabolically Engineered Building Units
• About the Authors and Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Illustration Credits
• Index of Persons, Firms, and Institutions
• Index of Projects, Buildings, and Places