Title & Author:

Wood urbanism : from the molecular to the territorial / editors, Daniel Ibañez, Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe.

Publication:

New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, [2019]
©2019

Description:

491 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
Title from colophon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface. Superpowers and hubris / Billie Faircloth -- Introduction. Wood urbanism / Daniel Ibañez , Jane Hutton, and Kiel Moe -- Species. Introduction: Specifying wood(s) / Jane Hutton -- Position: Branches, knots, and off-cuts: Designing the future forest by building with wood / Sean Mahoney -- Case: Illwerke Zentrum Montafon; Vorarlberg, Austria (Hermann Kaufmann ZT GmbH) / Thomas Sherman -- Project: The national forest / Azzurra Cox -- Prospect: Agents of design: Incentivized conservation in Southern Ontario's private forests / Julia Smachylo -- Visual essay: Harvard forest dioramas: Landscape history of Central New England -- Carbon. Introduction: Carbon and timber building / Kiel Moe -- Position: Carbon / Matti Kuittinen -- Case: Wood innovation and Design Centre; Prince George, British Columbia, Canada (Michael Green Architecture) / Thomas Sherman -- Project: Building along the carbon transect / Alan Organschi -- Prospect: Specific carbon / Kiel Moe and Oliver Curtis -- Visual essay: Carbon / Charles Lindsay -- Thermal. Introduction: R-values are not our values : Thermal design of timber buildings / Kiel Moe -- Position: Wood enclosures engineered as heat exchangers / Salmaan Craig and Jonathan Grinham -- Case: Atelier N11; Zweisimmen, Switzerland (N11 Architekten GmbH) / Thomas Sherman -- Project: Leiserhäuser / Peter Zumthor -- Prospect: The Littleton trials: An abductive thermal inquiry / Visual essay: Thermal calibration: Species and technique as thermal modifiers / Jacob Mans, David Kennedy, and Benjamin Peek -- Ecology. Introduction: Forests beyond wood / Jane Hutton -- Position: Stepping into the forest: Forest economy, rural livelihoods, and 'socionatures' in Chile / Fernanda Roja and Tomas Folch -- Case: Ysuhara Wooden Bridge Museum; Yusuhara, Shikoku, Japan (Kengo Kuma and Associates) -- Project: Hantz Woodlands: New growth along the American Rust Belt / Jonah Susskind -- Prospect: Foragers: Forest practice in India / Aaron Mendonça -- Visual essay: The tree planters / Rita Leistner -- Urbanism. Introduction: Urbanism beyond 'eco-parts' and 'eco-bubbles' / Daniel Ibañez -- Position: Cellulose, carbon and urban reform / Albert Pope and Jesús Vasallo -- Case: Svartlamoen Housing: Trondheim, Norway (Brendeland & Krisoffersen Arkitekter AS) / Thomas Sherman -- Project: New Corktown, Detroit, MI, USA / Albert Pope and Jesús Vasallo -- Prospect: Eco-neighborhood in Chañaral, Chile / UC Timber Innovation Center -- Visual essay: Biomass / biovoids / Daniel Ibañez -- Metabolism. Introduction: Opening black boxes : metabolic interdependencies in design / Daniel Ibañez -- Position: Metabolic consciousness: Designing as if we are manufacturing currencies made from wood and carbon dioxide / Izaskun Chinchilla -- Case: Asahi Kindergarten; Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan (Tezuka Architects) / Thomas Sherman -- Project: Biomilano / Stefano Boeri -- Prospect: Horizon House: A monomaterials prototype / Mariano Gomez Luque -- Visual Essay: Following flows / Alex MacLean and Daniel Ibañez.

Summary:

From small-scale thermal properties to large-scale forestry, territorial, and carbon cycle issues, wood has latent propensities not well addressed in the current discourse on wood construction. Through a range of design research formats, from material testing to in-situ documentation to speculative urban projects, this book articulates and illustrates future architectural and ecological potentials of wood. From under-considered thermal properties to emerging manufacturing possibilities to forestry regimes to larger ecosystem and carbon cycle dynamics, wood is uniquely positioned for ecological urbanization in the twenty-first century yet remains inadequately characterized in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. As the unique material properties of wood operate at multiple, simultaneous spatial and temporal scales, so should the discussions surrounding wood's role as a critical material for design today. This book brings into conversation scholars and practitioners who focus on wood from a range of perspectives, from the working forest to the mid-rise building to the cell itself. The aim is to examine the implications and potentials of wood urbanism, drawing particular focus to the complex relationships between land-use, wood production, and wood construction. While relying on the inherent intelligence and depth of multiple disciplines, a more totalizing thermodynamic perspective on the role of wood in contemporary buildings, urbanization, and territories is needed: from the imperceptibly small to the confoundingly large.

ISBN:

9781945150814 hardcover
1945150815 hardcover

Subject:

Building, Wooden.
Wood in design.
Wood.
Construction en bois.
Bois.
wood (plant material)
Holz
Holzbau
Raumordnung
Stadtplanung
Wald

Added entries:

Ibañez, Daniel, editor.
Hutton, Jane Elizabeth, 1976- editor.
Moe, Kiel, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307689
Call No.: BIB 253171
Status: Available