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

Imhoff, Dan

 
9780970950000: Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood (Wood Reduction Trilogy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0970950004 ISBN 13: 9780970950000
Publisher: University of California Press, 2005

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.

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About the Author

Daniel Imhoff is Executive Director of Watershed Media, a nonprofit communications agency located in Northern California. He and photographer/designer Roberto Carra have collaborated on four previous books, including Farming with the Wild: Enchancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranchers (Sierra Club Books, 2003)

From the Back Cover

""Building with Vision" is timely and extremely useful, a must-have resource for every architectural studio across the country."--Sim Van der Ryn, architect
"A lens into the future of building."--Zahid, Sardar, "San Franciso Chronicle"

From the Inside Flap

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

"A lens into the future of building."--Zahid, Sardar, San Franciso Chronicle

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Publisher
University of California Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0970950004
ISBN 13 
9780970950000
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
136