Cultivated Building Materials : Industrialized Natural Resources for Architecture and Construction.

Intro -- Contents -- Challenges, Strategies, and Goals -- Introduction: Cultivated Building Materials -- Production Back to The City -- The Ape of Materials -- The Industrialization of Timber - A Case Study -- Standardization of a Natural Resource -- Bamboo, a Cultivated Building Material -- Introduction -- Constructing with Engineered Bamboo -- Upscaling The Bamboo Industry -- The Ecological Impact of Industrially Cultivated Bamboo -- Engineered Bamboo Products - A Sustainable Choice? -- From Cultivated Materials to Building Products -- Soil-Dependent Products. Agriculture -- Wood Foam -- Biopolymers: Cement Replacement -- Biopolymers and Biocomposites Based on Agricultural Residues -- Lignin-based Carbon Fibres -- Nutrient-Dependent, Soil-Independent Products. Biotechnology -- Fungal Mycelium Bio-Materials -- Limestone-producing Bacteria: Self-healing Concrete -- Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate: Multilayer/Multimaterial Coatings on Non-conductive Materials -- Bio-Inspired Products. Biomimicry -- Replicating Natural Design Strategies In Bio-Inspired Composites -- Living Architecture (Liar): Metabolically Engineered Building Units -- About the Authors and Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index of Persons, Firms, and Institutions -- Index of Projects, Buildings, and Places.

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