Classic building material in a flexible system

Author: Molly Taylor

Over the last 20 years, a revolution has been taking place within the construction industry. Massive-engineered wood elements like CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) and LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber), are allowing us to build higher and larger than ever before. After over one hundred years with concrete and steel, wood is back in town.

Dissertation - Vittorio Salvadori

Thesis - Vittorio Salvadori

The AIA-CLF Embodied Carbon Toolkit for Architects serves to provide architects an overview and the necessary steps to be taken to reduce embodied carbon in their projects. This resource is divided into three parts, introducing the necessary steps and resources to take in reducing embodied carbon. This resource intends to empower building designers by: introducing embodied carbon and discussing its significance in furthering architects’ influence in decarbonizing the building industry. providing an understanding of measuring embodied carbon through the methodology of a life cycle assessment. equipping them with strategies to reduce embodied carbon in their own projects. incorporating additional resources for implemented strategies and tools that this resource examines.

Study calls for cap on production and release as pollution threatens global ecosystems upon which life depends

Go beyond interoperability: Speckle is an open source data platform for the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) industry.

There are some pretty unusual things to do in Austria, and we've done quite a few of them, but never did we expect to be on a tour of bus stops Krumbach, a village in the eastern region of Vorarlberg. Part modern art, part Alpine architecture the bus stops make Krumbach a cool, quirky place to visit in Austria. Read more: http://livesharetravel.com/27729/hop-hop-off-places-to-visit-in-austria/ Music: Jazz in Paris

If a ranking of the most significant architectural regions in the world were to be drawn up today, Vorarlberg would, without a doubt, be in the top ten. There are various ways and means for discovering the peculiarities of the Bregenzerwald's architectural and wooden culture.

Buying a family home is a major life milestone in many countries. But a lack of affordable housing and a desire to curb carbon footprints has led to the rise of alternative forms of accommodation, including "co-housing." Just how does this model work? And how difficult is it to get people to share their living space?

Flushing the water closet is handy, but it wreaks ecological havoc, deprives agricultural soils of essential nutrients and makes food production dependent on fossil fuels. For 4,000 years, human excrements and urine were considered extremely valuable trade products in China, Korea and Japan. Human dung was transported over specially designed canal networks by boats. Thanks to the application of human "waste" products as fertilizers to agricultural fields, the East managed to feed a large population without polluting their drinking water. Meanwhile, cities in medieval Europe turned into open sewers. The concept was modernized in late 19th century Holland, with Charles Liernur's sophisticated vacuum sewer system. © Illustrations in red & black: Diego Marmolejo for low-tech magazine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The innocent...

A building repurposing and extension in Winterthur exemplifies how design processes can be turned upside-down in favor of circular construction and compelling residential architecture.

DEMto3D, la primera herramienta que une SIG (Geographic Information System) and 3D printing.