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Building with bamboo : design and technology of a sustainable architecture
Traditionally a building material of the warmer climate zones, bamboo is becoming increasingly popular amongst architects in the northern hemisphere; bamboo has several advantages - it is very stable, of low weight, and highly elastic, in addition to being readily available as well as renewable. The applications of bamboo in architecture have diversified considerably, so that today, even struct…
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- 9783035625707
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- 721 Min b
Manual of biogenic house sections
"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…
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- 9781957183091
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- 724.6 Lew m
Bamboo Gridshells
Explores the advantages and challenges of using bamboo as a building material for gridshells. Highly illustrated text which includes examples from design-build experiments and case studies from Hawai'i and Vietnam.
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- 9781138795563
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- xix, 130 p. ; 26 cm.
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- 624.1897 Roc b
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