The New Autonomous House: Design and Planning for Sustainability - Softcover

Vale, Brenda And Robert; Vale, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500282870 ISBN 13: 9780500282878

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

The New Autonomous House has a simple but revolutionary message – that it is possible to live in a home which is inexpensive, kind to the planet, and which liberates its owner from utility bills.

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Review:

'The bible of self-build' - The Architects' Journal 'Thorough and detailed' - Building Services Journal 'For anyone interested in sustainable design, 'The New Autonomous House' will be indispensable' - Architecture Today

Synopsis:

Brenda and Robert Vale's revolutionary book, The Autonomous House, was a manifesto offering down-to-earth suggestions for building homes that neither pollute the earth nor squander its resources. It received tremendous international praise, but nearly twenty years passed before the Vales turned their groundbreaking ideas into reality, a process laid bare in this book. The New Autonomous House documents the design and construction of a four-bedroom house in the Midlands, one without mains water or sewerage but with the means to produce power from the sun and the wind, and the facilities to collect drinking-water from the rain. The Vales have a simple but dramatic message - that it is possible to live in a building that is at once inexpensive, practical and kind to the planet, and that liberates its owners from utility bills. Their book is a blueprint of green architecture for future generations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0500282870
• ISBN 13: 9780500282878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256