 Eco-minimalism: a plea from Howard Liddell of Gaia architects and Nick Grant of Elemental Solutions for some commonsense thinking to precede design and specification before rushing for the trendy sustainable add-ons like wind turbines and PV panels ...
Earth construction: the most basic and ubiquitous building material known to man, earth offers a virtually unlimited resource in its natural state. 10,000 years ago the world’s oldest city, Jericho, was constructed of packed earth .…
Light Earth what do you get if you mix straw or woodchip with clay slip (clay and water in a creamy solution), place them within a frame and let them dry to form a solid, insulating wall? Light earth construction, that’s what ...
Lothian Gridshell gridshell is in vogue. Building for a Future has featured at least two other gridshell projects over the last year. Previous projects have portrayed the method as a highly technical use of a low tech resource. This, however, need not be the case as we see with this project ...
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Earth sheltered home : in the middle of October 2002 a new type of Cumbrian house began doing its job of providing shelter to its owners. Set into the side of a hill, and surrounded by 350 million year old estuarial sandstone the house is unusual in quite a number of ways (this home was featured on Channel 4 - Grand Designs)...
Natural paints, counting the true costs: high-performance natural paints and finishes: a sensible investment or just ludicrously overpriced? The average contractor, paint merchant or buyer may entertain the possible advantages, but these considerations often go out the window when the issue of price comes up..
The house in a box: the House in a Box is the result of a very creatively rewarding collaborative project between sculptor and model-maker Pat Daw and environmental consultant Richard St.George over the last three years. The idea is to create, through the medium of a tenth scale model, an environmentally friendly kit house that would be cheap to buy and run and that could be built by four inexperienced people in just two weeks.
Green roofs, part 1: ...how the wider implementation of green roofs can be used to address problems of the urban environment and make it a more pleasant and amenable place to live and visit ...
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