Embodied energy and design : making architecture between metrics and narratives / edited by David Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benjamin, David N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable architecture.

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University GSAPP ; Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

"Architecture is increasingly understood as a field of practice that is inextricably embedded in ecologies and energy systems, and yet embodied energy-the various forms of energy required to extract raw matter, to produce and transport building materials, and to assemble a given building-remains largely under-explored in its ramifications for both design and environment. As operational energy has declined as a proportion of buildings' total energy consumption, embodied energy has become an essential site for further speculation and innovation. Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture between Metrics and Narratives asks questions about the varying scales, methods of analysis, and opportunities through which we might reconsider the making of architecture in the context of global flows of energy and resources"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Embodied energy and the promise of convergence / Amale Andraos

Embodied energy and design / David Benjamin

Drawing embodied energy / David Benjamin

Embodied energy visualizations

Three material stories / Lindsey Wikstrom

Material stories : Concrete : Limestone quarry; Cement silo; Foundation; Structure ; Steel : Iron ore; Steel former; Container ship; Steel yard; Structure ; Wood : Forest; Sawmill; Retail; Balloon frame

Location of matter and energy : Location: attributional, contingent, phenomenal / Michelle Addington ; Energy publics: five embodied worlds / Mason White ; Unpacking the wall: three partial paradigms / Sheila Kennedy ; The Parthenon's disembodied energy / Jorge Otero-Pailos

Duration of materials and buildings : Inventive matter: architecture for a third resource regime / Blaine Brownell

Reservoir building: toward an idea of abundant pertinence / Dirk E. Hebel

Use-full: embodied entropy in an architecture of moving parts / Forrest Meggers

Energy design as governance / Jonathan Massey

Quantitative and qualitative effects : Not-zero energy / Kiel Moe

The future will be biofabricated / Eben Bayer

Getting beyond energy: environmental impacts, building materials, and climate change / Stephanie Carlisle

Recycled, reclaimed, waste, and rapidly renewable materials / Andrew Dent

Qualifying the quantitative in the construction of built ecologies / Naomi Keena and Anna Dyson

Afterword : Considering two episodes in the history of energy and its architectural embodiment / Daniel A. Barber

Getting serious about embodied energy / James Surowiecki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783037785256

303778525X

OCLC:

991535994