Building with Bamboo: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture Second and revised edition

Although traditionally a building material of the warmer climate zones, bamboo is becoming increasingly popular amongst architects in the northern hemisphere; bamboo has several advantages – it is very stable, of low weight, and highly elastic, in addition to being readily available as well as renew...

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Main Author: Minke, Gernot 1937- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel Birkhäuser [2016]
Edition:Second and revised edition
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Summary:Although traditionally a building material of the warmer climate zones, bamboo is becoming increasingly popular amongst architects in the northern hemisphere; bamboo has several advantages – it is very stable, of low weight, and highly elastic, in addition to being readily available as well as renewable. The applications of bamboo in architecture have become significantly wider and diversified, so that today, even structures with large spans – such as bridges – are built with this material. The new and revised second edition of this manual provides a practical, systematic overview of the numerous potential applications and processing methods of this renewable material. The comprehensive presentation of groundbreaking bamboo buildings has been updated with more recent projects
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Jul. 04., 2016)
Physical Description:1 online resource (159 Seiten)
ISBN:9783035608656
DOI:10.1515/9783035608656

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