Manual of Biogenic House Sections

The goal of ‘Manual of Biogenic House Sections’ is to show how houses can be design and built today using material assembly systems that are either low carbon emitting materials, or are carbon sequestering renewable, plant-based materials. Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse substantial amounts of existing materials. Organized by those materials (wood, bamboo, straw, hemp, cork, earth, brick, stone and re-use), and incorporating life cycle diagrams demonstrating how the raw material is processed into building components, the book shows how the unique properties of each material can transform the ways architects conceive the sections of houses.[MORE] The house was selected as the vehicle for these investigations due to its scale, its r