Sustainable and Regenerative Materials for Architecture

Architects! Lead the change in responsible and creative material use. There is a creative explosion of work taking place in architecture and schools exploring materials such as mycelium, clay/earth, engineered timber, bio-based plastics and algae. This handbook of low- and no-carbon materials for architects and ers focuses on sustainable materials, their sourcing, technical properties and the processes required for their use in architecture. The book showcases new and rediscovered processes for material fabrication, responsible sourcing and creative material . Material properties (structural, thermal, fire, health and life safety) are described and case studies from around the world illustrate the inventive ways in which these materials have been deployed in the built environment. The book is ed as an introduction to the exciting and rapidly changing world of construction materials. With a better understanding of the social, environmental and economic sustainability of any given material - alongside its technical properties - students of architecture can lead the change in responsible and creative material use. CONTENTS 1 Materials overview 2 Extractive materials: earth and clay concrete stone metals glass 3 Grown materials: timber and cork paper hemp bamboo seaweed mycelium algae biopolymers wool