Main entry:

Richardson, Phyllis.

Title & Author:

Superlight : rethinking how our homes impact the earth / Phyllis Richardson.

Publication:

New York, NY : Metropolis Books, 2014.
©2014

Description:

256 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Introduction : Houses that 'touch the earth lightly' -- Floating house, Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada / MOS Architects -- Exbury egg, Hampshire UK / PAD Studio and Stephen Turner -- Recreation island house, Breukelen, Netherlands / 2by4 Architects -- Summer house, Lysekil, Sweden / Mats Fahlander -- Port-a-Bach, New Plymouth, New Zealand / Atelier Workshop -- Pilotis in a forest, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan / Go Hasegawa -- Blooming bamboo house, Hanoi, Vietnam / H & P Architects -- Casa Garoza, Ávila, Spain / Herreros Arquitectos -- The treehouse, Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium / Baumraum -- 02. Low Energy : Recycled materials cottage, Pirihueico, Chile / Juan Luis Martínez Nahuel -- CHiP house, Solar decathlon 2011 / SCI-Arc/Caltech -- First light, Solar decathlon 2011 / Victoria University of Wellington -- LISI house, Solar decathlon 2013 / Vienna University of Technology -- Meme Meadows, Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan / Kengo Kuma & Associates -- Hivehaus, Wigan, Lancashire, UK / Barry Jackson -- Mod. Fab, Scottsdale, Arizona / Taliesin West -- DesertSol, Solar decathlon 2013 / University of Nevada Las Vegas -- Containers of hope, San Jose, Costa Rica / Benjamin Garcia Saxe -- 03. Urban light : House NA, Tokyo, Japan / Sou Fujimoto -- Cabanon Cuyés, Cuyés, Dax, France / Bruit du Frigo -- House in Yamasaki, Yamasaki, Hyōgo, Japan / Tato Architects -- Tokyo Steel house, Tokyo, Japan / MDS Architecture -- The nest, Thuân An, Vietnam / A21 Studio -- Casa Nuñez, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Adamo-Faiden Arquitectos -- Efficiency house plus, Berlin, Germany Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design, University of Stuttgart.
04. Escape : Apelle, Karjaa, Finland / Marco Casagrande -- Low-energy bamboo house, Beukenlaan, Rotselaar, Belgium / AST77 -- Base camp Chewton, Chewton, Victoria, Australia / Insite Design -- Casa Apolo 11, La Reina, Santiago, Chile / Parra + Edwards Arquitectos -- Wetlands habitation and work unit, Nanhui Dongtan, Shanghai, China / Prof. Jingxiang Zhu, Chinese University of Hong Kong -- Hut on sleds, Whangapoua, New Zealand / Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects -- Swamp hut, Newton, Massachusetts / Moskow Linn Architects -- Máquina 1, Murcia, Spain / Adhoc -- Cape Russell Retreat, Sharps Chapel, Tennessee / Sanders Pace Architecture -- 05. Extreme : Gervasutti/LEAPrus, Grandes Jorasses, France/Mt Elbrus, Russia / LEAPfactory -- Low-cost house, Biên Hòa, Dong Nai, Vietnam / Vo Trong Nghia Architects -- Squish Studio, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada / Saunders Architecture -- N4+ Gluebam House, Wuhan, China / Advanced Architecture Lab -- Mamelodi Pod, Mamelodi, Pretoria, South Africa / Architecture for a change -- Smart Student Hut, Virserum, Sweden / Tengbom Architects and Lund University -- Yakushima Takatsuka Lodge, Kagoshima, Yakushima, Japan / Shigeru Ban.
Includes two Canadian projects: Floating House, Lake Huron, Ont., by MOS Architects, and Squish Studio, Fogo Island, N.F., by Saunders Architecture.

Summary:

"One of the most powerful design philosophies of recent years has been architect Glenn Murcutt's notion that buildings should 'touch the earth lightly.' Today, climate change, new materials, and restricted land use have given fresh impetus to find lightweight solutions for our dwellings. The 40 houses gathered here by Phyllis Richardson-- author of the highly successful XS series and Nano House-- show us that buildings can weigh less and have minimal impact on their environments, and that this lightness-- visual, material, ecological-- can create beautiful, ethereal homes that offer new, natural modes of habitation and greater communion with our surroundings."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9781938922589 (hbk.)
1938922581 (hbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Environmental aspects.
Ecological houses.
Sustainable architecture.
Architecture, Domestic Designs and plans.
Maisons écologiques.
Architecture durable.
Architecture domestique Dessins et plans.
Architecture, Domestic.
Sustainable buildings
Floating House (Ont.)
Squish Studio (Fogo Island, N.L.)
MOS (Firm)
Saunders Architecture.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287460
Call No.: BIB 228523
Status: Available