#books #architecture | Sustainable : houses with small footprints

Sustainable : houses with small footprints / Avi Friedman.
Rizzoli, New York : 2015.
336 p. : il., planos.
ISBN 9780847843725
Arquitectura -- Aspecto del medio ambiente.
Arquitectura doméstica.
Casas individuales.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72:504 SUS
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1825336~S1*spi

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.