Main entry:

Joachim, Mitchell, author.

Title & Author:

XXL-XS : new directions in ecological design / Mitchell Joachim, Mike Silver.

Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers, [2016]
©2016

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"The inside surface of this book's dust jacket is coated with a specially formulated ink containing particulate matter produced by the burning of fossil fuels. As a graphic object, XXL-XS actively sequesters materials harmful to our planet's fragile atmosphere. Here design on a very small scale engages design on the global scale"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Michelle D. Addington -- Introduction : Design for a planet in peril / Mitchell Joachim and Mike Silver -- Projects : Extraterritoriality nexus / Melanie Fessel -- WeatherField / Lateral Office and LCLA Office, Mason White and Lola Sheppard -- Amagerforbraending Waste Treatment Plant / BIG, Bjarke Ingels -- Clean / Azadeh Mohammadi -- Future Venice / Rachel Armstrong -- Aqualta / Clouds AO, Studio Lindfors -- 7°56'S-14°22'W / Charles Darwin and Sir Joseph Hooker -- Very large structure, Zuloark, Manuel Dominínguez -- CVO8 / Andrew Maynard -- Dune City: a transgressive biomimetics / Magnus Larsson and Alex Kaiser -- Lilypads / Vincent Callebaut -- Heliofield, Land Art Generator Initiative / Michael Chaveriat, Yikyu Choe, Myung Kweon -- Ice factory / Victor Hadjikyriacou -- Urbaneering resilient waterfront: infrastructure as spectacle / Terreform ONE -- ARC wildlife bridge / MVVA, Michael Van Valkenburgh -- Filenes's ecopods / J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Höwler -- Sky condos / Baumgartner+Uriu Architecture (B+U), Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu -- Halley VI: Antarctic Research Station / Hugh Broughton -- Microcosmic aquaculture: gelatinous orbs / Bittertang -- Amphibious architecture / The Living, David Benjamin -- The anthropocene folly / Pneumastudio, Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry -- Fab Tree Hab and plug-in ecology / Terreform ONE -- Strange weather / Pablo Garcia -- Stripped-down villa / Jason Vigneri-Beane -- Ground elemental / Doug Jackson and Marc Neveu -- The micro-behavior of multi-agent systems / Kokkugia, Roland Snooks -- Theater of lost species / Future Cities Lab, Jason Kelly Johnson -- Baubotanik: living plant constructions / Ferdinand Ludwig -- He shot me down / François Roche -- Head in the Clouds Pavilion / Studio KCA -- Open-source ecology / Marcin Jakubowski -- Elevator B / Ba+p, Hive City -- Extrapolation Factory, animal superpowers / Chris Woebken -- Bioreactors, membranes, and architecture / Zbigniew Oksiuta -- Hortus: algae farm / ecoLogicStudio, Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero -- Radiant soil / Philip Beesley -- Branching morphogenesis / Sabin+Jones LabStudio, Jenny E. Sabin -- Concrete recycling robot / Omer Haciomeroglu -- Your rotten future will be great / Phil Ross -- A call for citizen biotech / Terreform ONE + Genspace, Oliver Medvedik -- Recycled plastic furniture / Greg Lynn -- Up-drop / Aurora Robson -- Trash track / Carlo Ratti -- Cascade formations: low energy-high complexity / Rhett Russo -- Biomanufactured brick / bioMASON, Ginger Dosier -- Construction site automation, green masonry, and BIM / Mike Silver -- Glass works / Evan Douglis -- Solar sintering / Markus Kayser -- Rewilding with synthetic biology / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg -- Semi-living victimless utopia: will we ever get there? / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr -- Molecular self-assembly / Skylar Tibbits -- Bio city map of 11 billion: world population in 2110 / Terreform ONE -- nBots: sustaining nano-robotic environments / Decker Yeadon, Martina Decker and Peter Yeadon -- Essays and interviews : Ecoredux: an archival & design resource for ecological materials experiments / Lydia Kallipoliti -- Mediterranean be dammed: the story of Atlantropa / Jason Bellows -- Interview : Steven Cassels -- The terraforming of Ascension Island / David Catling -- Another green world / AUDC, Robert Sumrell + Kazys Varnelis -- Interview : Natalie Jeremijenko -- A mind in the water / Graham Burnett -- The indoor microbial forest / Jessica Green -- Beyond sustainability: identity formation and built ecologies / Anna Dyson -- Biology is fabrication: energy, food, and the third industrial revolution / Nina Tandon -- Green composites / Anil Netravali -- Re-wilding the suburbs: housing taxonomy / Alex Felson and Jacob Dugopolski -- Ten archetypes of nature in design / Mitchell Joachim -- Oikoìosis: a guide to adaptive behavior / Ioanna Theocharopoulou.

Summary:

XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book. At one extreme are massive public works, at the other, micro to nano-sized interventions that can have equally profound impacts on our world. From terraforming to bio-manufacturing, a new generation of designers is proposing unique ways of confronting the difficult challenges ahead. In this way design becomes a totality of relationships that affects all disciplines, which can no-longer be thought of as self-contained fields, each handled separately by narrowly focused specialists. -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1940291879 paperback
9781940291871 paperback

Subject:

Sustainable architecture.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Art Environmental aspects.
Architecture durable.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.

Added entries:

Silver, Michael, 1964- author.

New directions in ecological design

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295569
Call No.: BIB 241852
Status: Available