TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hebel,Dirk E.
AU  - Heisel,Felix
TI  - Cultivated Building Materials: Industrialized Natural Resources for Architecture and Construction
SN  - 9783035608922
AV  - TA683 .H434 2017
U1  - 691.9 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Basel/Berlin/Boston
PB  - Walter de Gruyter GmbH
KW  - Reinforced concrete
KW  - Composite-reinforced concrete
KW  - Building materials
KW  - Natural resources
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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