Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood: 02 (Wood Reduction Trilogy) - Softcover

Imhoff, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970950004 ISBN 13: 9780970950000

Publisher: Watershed Media, 2001

Synopsis

Part green building primer, part architectural photo essay, this is an essential resource for professionals and homeowners interested in the leading edge of environmental building. Imhoff traveled extensively to document and photograph beautiful and novel alternatives to wood intensive-building.

Building with Vision is the first book to link residential building with forest impacts. Nearly 1.5 million new houses are built in the United States each year, 90 percent framed with wood, and the average house consuming an acre's worth of trees. But as Building with Vision shows, from framing and siding to new building systems and finish materials, there are many ways architects, contractors, and homeowners can make high-quality, resourceful, long-lasting and beautiful decisions. Details include building techniques as well as materials, including Styrofoam, steel, concrete, straw bales, rammed earth, adobe and much more.

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Review

"Building with Vision is timely and extremely useful, a must-have resource for every architectural studio across the country."

Synopsis

Combining environmental philosophy, practical information and dynamic visuals, "Building with Vision" makes accessible many solutions to wasteful tree-dependent construction and design. In addition to identifying the benefits, challenges, and applications of the recommended alternatives to contemporary American construction, this book details building methods to minimize wood waste, maximize efficiency, and emphasize the unique aesthetic properties of non-wood materials. Part resource guide, part photo essay, this 136-page gem is packed full of beautifully composed, nearly tactile photographs that bring to life an array of alternative materials. Case studies highlight successful building projects that utilize innovative and effective framing, siding, insulation, roofing, and finishing materials and techniques. Building systems featured include: Rastra, a new kind of interlocking block made of recovered Styrofoam packaging; Structural Insulated Pales (SIPs) made of plywood, OSB, or strawboard with a thick foam core; and, a variety of 'Eco-Crete', super-insulating concrete systems.

A wide range of finish materials are discussed as well: panel board made from agricultural crop waste, flooring derived from used tires, natural linoleum and certified woods, and cement countertops embedded with finds from the urban waste stream.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watershed Media
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0970950004
• ISBN 13: 9780970950000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136