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Grow Your Own House

by Simon Velez

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ISBN13: 9783931936259
ISBN10: 3931936252
Condition: Standard
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Bamboo, which has been used as building material for centuries and is widely available (35 million acres worldwide are covered in bamboo), is being rediscovered today. Its cost-effectiveness and ability to endure adverse environmental forces make it one of the preeminent construction materials on the planet. Bamboo's unique aesthetic appearance has been exploited in design and furniture building.

The highly visual and engaging Grow Your Own House will open your eyes to the beauty and lightness of bamboo structures and designs. Bamboo - a widely available and renewable resource almost as strong as steel, yet very light - lends itself to architectural experiments. Buckminster Fuller, Frei Otto, Renzo Piano, Shoei Yoh, and Arata Isozaki are a few of the millions of people worldwide using bamboo to create space and structure around them.

Author and architect Simón Vélez pioneered bamboo construction in his home country of Colombia. His most recent and spectacular project, which is prominently featured in Grow Your Own House, is the Expo 2000 pavilion for the ZERI Foundation. At over 120 feet in diameter and over 50 feet high, it is one of the largest bamboo structures in the world.

Grow Your Own House includes all the latest trends of this cutting-edge revival. The integration of the seeming dichotomies of high-tech and sustainability, global thinking and regional traditions definitely makes the future look brighter. This lavishly and colorfully illustrated volume is published in dual languages (German and English).

Contributors to this volume include Jean Dethier, Walter Liese, Eda Schaur, Frei Otto, and Mateo Kries.

Review:

"This is, by far, the most unusual book we've reviewed in a long time... Grow Your Own House is a spectacular and appealing invitation to construction with bamboo. Simón Vélez has designed a bamboo structure more than 120 feet in diameter and 50 feet high; the first third of the book examines Vélez's work in Colombia and elsewhere. Next are sections on "basic elements" of bamboo construction, showing examples of walls, windows and doors, connecting joints, roofs, floors, and foundations. The last part of the book has sections on bamboo botany, cutting and processing bamboo, low-cost bamboo buildings, bamboo domes, testing bamboo, composite materials, and more. There is also a valuable bibliography on bamboo biology and utilization. Perhaps you are thinking that the idea of growing a structure seems far-fetched. If you examine this book in a serious way, we guarantee that the idea will seem, well, quite natural. Gardens that yield buildings..why not?" HortIdeas
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Simón Vélez and Bamboo Architecture
    The ZERI Pavilion and Sustainable Architecture (Jean Dethier)
    From the Test Report on the ZERI Pavilion (Klaus Steffens)
    ?I am a roofing architect? (interview with Simón Vélez)
    Biography and Select Works
  • Basic Elements
    • The Support
    The Wall
    The Window, The Door
    The Connection
    The Floor
    The Roof
    Meta-Architecture
  • Grow You Own...House
    • Sustainability
    Botany and the Use of Bamboo (Walter Liese)
    Cutting and Processing
    The ?Global Village? is Made of Bamboo
    The Bamboo Cult
    A Plant Travels the World
    From Globalization ro Regionalization
  • Low Budget
    • Dancing Houses
    Natural Intelligence
    Frei Otto on Bamoo Architecture
    Organic Shapes
    Experiments with Bamboo Domes (Eda Schaur)
    Grid Matrices
    Synergies
    Testing Bamboo
    Composite Materials
  • High Science + Simple Tech
  • Bamboo is Beautiful
  • Picture Credits
  • Bibliography
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spaceosm, January 18, 2009 (view all comments by spaceosm)
its revolutionary work by the golden green architect.Simon velez.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9783931936259
Author:
Velez, Simon
Author:
Bamboo Architecture
Author:
Vitra Design Museum
Publisher:
Vitra Design Museum
Location:
Weil am Rhein, Germany
Subject:
Design & Construction
Subject:
Domestic
Subject:
Architecture - Specific Styles
Subject:
Colombia
Subject:
Architects
Subject:
Bamboo construction.
Subject:
History - Specific Styles
Subject:
Residential
Subject:
Buildings - Residential
Subject:
Methods & Materials
Subject:
Architecture-Houses
Copyright:
2000
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]).
Series Volume:
124
Publication Date:
20000131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
full-color photos throughout
Pages:
262
Dimensions:
11.48x9.45x.87 in. 2.60 lbs.
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"Review" by , "This is, by far, the most unusual book we've reviewed in a long time... Grow Your Own House is a spectacular and appealing invitation to construction with bamboo. Simón Vélez has designed a bamboo structure more than 120 feet in diameter and 50 feet high; the first third of the book examines Vélez's work in Colombia and elsewhere. Next are sections on "basic elements" of bamboo construction, showing examples of walls, windows and doors, connecting joints, roofs, floors, and foundations. The last part of the book has sections on bamboo botany, cutting and processing bamboo, low-cost bamboo buildings, bamboo domes, testing bamboo, composite materials, and more. There is also a valuable bibliography on bamboo biology and utilization. Perhaps you are thinking that the idea of growing a structure seems far-fetched. If you examine this book in a serious way, we guarantee that the idea will seem, well, quite natural. Gardens that yield buildings..why not?"
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