TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman,Avi
TI  - Sustainable: houses with small footprints 
SN  - 9780847843725
AV  - TH 4860 F76.2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Rizzoli
KW  - Ecological houses
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - Casas ecológicas
KW  - Diseño y construcción
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas
N2  - 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
ER  -