Cultivated Building Materials: Industrialized Natural Resources for Architecture and Construction

Dirk E. Hebel; Felix Heisel

Published by Birkhäuser 2017

Cultivated Building Materials

Industrialized Natural Resources for Architecture and Construction

Dirk E. Hebel and Felix Heisel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035608922

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Next generation building materials

NEXT GENERATION BUILDING MATERIALS

The 21st century faces a radical change in how we produce construction materials – a shift towards cultivating, breeding, raising, farming, or growing future resources.

This book presents innovative industrialized production methods for cultivated building materials, like cement grown by bacteria, bricks made of mushroom mycelium, or bamboo fibers as reinforcement for concrete.

Spanning from scientific research to product development and architectural application, this book builds a bridge between the academic and the professional world of architecture.

The book describes the challenges, strategies, and goals in the first part, followed by a second part on bamboo, A cultivated building material and a number of examples in the third part which form the bridge from cultivated materials to building products.

Industrialized cultivated building materials
Presentation of innovative products made of renewable resources
Bridging of scientific research, product development and application

Author information

Prof. Dirk E. Hebel; Felix Heisel, Professorship Sustainable Construction, KIT Karlsruhe, Germany

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"[...] eine facettenreiche Tour d'horizon in ein sehr komplexes Thema [...] nicht nur für Fachleute, sondern auch für Laien ein Gewinn [...]"
In: archtektur atuell 1/2 (2019), 148

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Challenges, Strategies, and Goals
Introduction: Cultivated Building Materials Dirk E. Hebel and Felix Heisel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Production Back to The City Manufacturing and the New Urban Economy Dieter Läpple Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
The Ape of Materials Gottfried Semper’s System and the Fascination with Elasticity Ákos Moravánszky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
The Industrialization of Timber – A Case Study Nikita Aigner and Philipp Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Standardization of a Natural Resource The Example of Industrial Earth Building Materials in Germany Christof Ziegert and Jasmine Alia Blaschek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Bamboo, a Cultivated Building Material
Introduction Dirk E. Hebel and Felix Heisel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Constructing with Engineered Bamboo Dirk E. Hebel, Felix Heisel, Alireza Javadian, Philipp Müller, Simon Lee, Nikita Aigner and Karsten Schlesier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Upscaling The Bamboo Industry Felix Böck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
The Ecological Impact of Industrially Cultivated Bamboo Peter Edwards and Yvonne Edwards-Widmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Engineered Bamboo Products – A Sustainable Choice? Pablo van der Lugt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
From Cultivated Materials to Building Products
Soil-Dependent Products. Agriculture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Wood Foam Frauke Bunzel and Nina Ritter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Biopolymers: Cement Replacement Leon van Paassen and Yask Kulshreshtha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Biopolymers and Biocomposites Based on Agricultural Residues Hanaa Dahy and Jan Knippers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Lignin-based Carbon Fibres Peter Axegård and Per Tomani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Nutrient-Dependent, Soil-Independent Products. Biotechnology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Fungal Mycelium Bio-Materials Phil Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Limestone-producing Bacteria: Self-healing Concrete Henk M. Jonkers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate: Multilayer/Multimaterial Coatings on Non-conductive Materials Filipe Natalio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Bio-Inspired Products. Biomimicry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Replicating Natural Design Strategies In Bio-Inspired Composites Davide Carnelli and André R. Studart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Living Architecture (Liar): Metabolically Engineered Building Units Rachel Armstrong, Andrew Adamatzky, Gary S. Caldwell, Simone Ferracina, Ioannis Ieropoulos, Gimi Rimbu, José Luis García, Juan Nogales, Barbara Imhof, Davide de Lucrezia, Neil Phillips and Martin M. Hanczyc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
About the Authors and Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Illustration Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Index of Persons, Firms, and Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Index of Projects, Buildings, and Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184

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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Pages
- Main content: 184
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 40
- Coloured Illustrations: 180

eBook

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9783035608922

Hardcover

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9783035611069