Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780847843725)

A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. Have we passed a tipping point beyond which we can no longer reverse a course of action that was charted several decades ago Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints argues that we can indeed detach our dwellings from a dependence on many external systems and resources and adopt other building practices. What is known as living off the grid is possible, and Sustainable presents forty-five houses that demonstrate how architects have implemented sustainable design concepts around the world. These projects show us what time-tested vernacular design principles--including local materials, natural ventilation strategies, and earth shelter construction--can teach us, as well as how the latest cutting-edge technologies--such as indoor farming and "living walls" made of plant material--can make truly sustainable design possible. The variety and ingenuity of the projects featured here make Sustainable a uniquely coherent and authoritative volume on sustainable residential design.

Author: Avi Friedman
ISBN-10: 0847843726
ISBN-13: 9780847843725
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2015
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 9.30w x 1.20d