Construction Process and Material Science for a Sustainable Architecture
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 378
Special Issue Editors
Interests: civil engineering; materials science for construction (wood and other bio-based materials; timber and timber concrete composite structure; cementitious materials, earth concrete); environmental impact assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Steel transformed architecture in the 19th century, concrete in the 20th, the 21st century will be biobased”, said the French architect P. Madec, known for his skill in mastering old materials in contemporary architectural projects. This sentence sounds almost like a slogan, implying that designers are waiting for urgent progress in material science with respect to the huge environmental concerns of the present day.
Indeed, earth, straw, vegetal materials in general, solid timber, and dressed stone, are currently classified in the family of environmentally friendly materials. In order to preserve the availability of these resources, a promising approach could be design that aims to facilitate deconstruction, or “DfD”.
On the other hand, innovative design solutions, including parametric design and digital manufacturing, are developing in many universities, and can be associated with biomimicry notions and structural optimization.
We invite you to submit original results on new manufacturing processes or structural approaches, reuse–use properties, durability, proof of concept, etc., and to discuss them from the point of view of their adequacy within sustainable architecture.
Prof. Dr. Robert Le Roy
Dr. Sandrine Marceau
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resources reuse
- innovative solutions
- environmental impact
- architectural projects
- construction materials
- digital process
- biomimicry
