Cultivated Building Materials

Contents
Challenges, Strategies, and Goals
Introduction: Cultivated Building Materials
Production Back to The City
The Ape of Materials
The Industrialization of Timber – A Case Study
Standardization of a Natural Resource
Bamboo, a Cultivated Building Material
Introduction
Constructing with Engineered Bamboo
Upscaling The Bamboo Industry
The Ecological Impact of Industrially Cultivated Bamboo
Engineered Bamboo Products – A Sustainable Choice?
From Cultivated Materials to Building Products
Soil-Dependent Products. Agriculture
Wood Foam
Biopolymers: Cement Replacement
Biopolymers and Biocomposites Based on Agricultural Residues
Lignin-based Carbon Fibres
Nutrient-Dependent, Soil-Independent Products. Biotechnology
Fungal Mycelium Bio-Materials
Limestone-producing Bacteria: Self-healing Concrete
Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate: Multilayer/Multimaterial Coatings on Non-conductive Materials
Bio-Inspired Products. Biomimicry
Replicating Natural Design Strategies In Bio-Inspired Composites
Living Architecture (Liar): Metabolically Engineered Building Units
About the Authors and Contributors
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index of Persons, Firms, and Institutions
Index of Projects, Buildings, and Places