Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints

A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. Have we passed a tipping point beyond which we can no longer reverse a course of action that was charted several decades ago Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints argues that we can indeed detach our dwellings from a dependence on many external systems and resources and adopt other building practices. What is known as living off the grid is possible and Sustainable presents forty-five houses that demonstrate how architects have implemented sustainable design concepts around the world. These projects show us what time-tested vernacular design principles—including local materials natural ventilation strategies and earth shelter construction—can teach us as well as how the latest cutting-edge technologies—such as indoor farming and living walls made of plant material—can make truly sustainable design possible. The variety and ingenuity of the projects featured here make Sustainable a uniquely coherent and authoritative volume on sustainable residential design.

Hardcover: 336 pages

Publisher: Rizzoli (March 17 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0847843726

ISBN-13: 978-0847843725

Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 1.2 x 9.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds