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Informationen zum Autor LYNNE ELIZABETH is a consultant and author on sustainable community development and ecological design. She currently directs New Village Press, a publishing project of ADPSR, and resides in Temescal Commons, a solar-powered cohousing community in Oakland, California. CASSANDRA ADAMS is an architect and consultant in construction management and ecological design. She has taught architecture, construction, and environmental courses at the University of Washington and the University of California-Berkeley. Klappentext The complete guide to selecting and using natural materials for building Covering a broad range of options for natural building, Alternative Construction examines straw bale, light clay, cob, adobe, rammed earth and pisé, earthbag, earth-sheltered, bamboo, and hybrid systems for residential and low-rise commercial structures. Over thirty well-known experts on each building system?including Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen (coauthors of The Straw Bale House), David Easton (author of The Rammed Earth House), and Joseph Kennedy and Michael Smith (editor and author of The Art of Natural Building)?have contributed core chapters that explore the history, development, environmental benefits, and engineering and building code requirements for each method. More than 200 visuals depict both construction processes and completed structures, while an extensive resource guide shows where to go for further information, training, and research. Editors Lynne Elizabeth and Cassandra Adams have provided, in the words of Environmental Building News, "a terrific overview of various methods for building with earth, straw, and bamboo . . . Alternative Construction is an enlightening, sometimes fascinating, combination of voices." Whether you're a designer, builder, or owner, this book will help you to combine indigenous building materials with modern construction systems to create low-impact, high-quality buildings that meet the highest levels of comfort, health, and safety. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive guide to combining traditional natural materials and modern construction methods. From adobe to straw bales, traditional building materials are being adapted to meet code--required standards for health and safety in contemporary buildings around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. DESIGN PRINCIPLES 1. Introduction The Natural Building Movement 3 Lynne Elizabeth The Realities of Specifying Environmental Building Materials 9 Cassandra Adams 2. A New Context for Building Codes and Regulation 19 David Eisenberg 3. Natural Conditioning of Buildings 37 Ken Haggard, Polly Cooper, and Jennifer Rennick with assistance from Phil Niles 4. Structural Properties of Alternative Building Materials 71 Bruce King, P.E. PART II. SYSTEMS AND MATERIALS 5. Adobe 87 Michael Moquin 6. Cob 117 Michael Smith 7. Rammed Earth 151 David Easton 8. Modular Contained Earth Earthbag 175 Joseph Kennedy and Paulina Wojciechowska with special acknowledgment of the work of Nader Khalili Earth-RammedTires 190 Michael Reynolds 9. Light Clay 195 Robert Laporte and Frank Andresen with special acknowledgment of the work of Franz Volhard 10. Straw-Bale 209 Kelly Lerner, Bob Theis, and Dan Smith 11. Bamboo 235 Darrel DeBoer and Karl Bareis 12. Earthen Finishes Earth Plasters 255 Carole Crews Earth Floors 264 Bill and Athena Steen Part III. APPLICATIONS 13. Integrated Systems with Rammed Earth Charles Sturt University, Thurgoona Campus, New South Wales, Australia 273 Marci Webster-Mannison
