Building from Waste - by Dirk E Hebel & Marta H Wisniewska & Felix Heisel (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A key issue of sustainable design

"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover" is the
sustainable guideline that has replaced the "Take, Make, Waste" attitude
of the industrial age. Based on their background at the ETH Zurich and
the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, the authors provide both a
conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use
waste as a renewable resource.

This book introduces an inventory
of current projects and building elements, ranging from marketed
products, among them façade panels made of straw and self-healing
concrete, to advanced research and development like newspaper, wood or
jeans denim used as isolating fibres. Going beyond the mere recycling
aspect of reused materials, it looks into innovative concepts of how
materials usually regarded as waste can be processed into new
construction elements. The products are organized along the
manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed
and cultivated materials.

A product directory presents all
materials and projects in this book according to their functional uses
in construction: load-bearing, self-supporting, insulating,
waterproofing and finishing products.

• The building practice side of the life cycle approach
• Building materials from renewable resources
• A systematic overview using specially produced drawings

Review Quotes

"Das Autorenteam von der ETH Zürich und dem Future Cities Laboratory in Singapur gibt hier erstmals einen systematischen Überblick über die aus Abfall als erneuerbarem Rohstoff produzierten Baumaterialien und -elemente und über ihre Anwendung in Architektur, Innenraumgestaltung und Produktdesign."
IBOmagazin 2/2015

About the Author

Dirk E. Hebel, Marta H. Wisniewska and Felix Heisel, ETH Zurich and Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore ETH Centre