Description
Book SynopsisIn his seminal new book, Bill Dunster demonstrates that zero-carbon, zero-waste design doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag, and is achievable today. This book presents a range of tools that form key ingredients in a low carbon society. Focusing on technologies that are already in use, ZEDlife explores both small-scale ideas (such as shelters and lighting) and large-scale solutions in buildings and across cities. An essential resource for both students and practitioners, ZEDlife offers an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability, making connections to a web of technologies through full-colour case studies of new build and retrofit projects from across the globe.
The argument for low-cost, zero-energy, zero-waste architecture has never been timelier. This book offers a forceful challenge to the status quo and provides workable, sustainable solutions for zero-carbon, zero-waste design.
Table of ContentsPart I:
Introduction
A Beginner’s Guide to ZEDlife
The ZEDlife: A call to engage
Part II: The ZEDlife Tools
The ZEDroof
Solar-charged exchangeable batteries
Low carbon transport: The ZEDbike, electric vehicles and the filling stations of the future
Building-level energy systems: Air sourced head pumps and solar assisted heating and cooling
District-level energy systems and food production
Retrofit of existing buildings
Rainwater harvesting and water re-use
Tool combinations
Part III: The ZEDlife in practice
The Zero-bills home
ZEDpods
Shoreham Cement Works Holiday Park
Rehousing Somalia’s IDPs: From emergency housing to a long-term urban solution
AfricaZED
Shanghai Expo ZED Pavillion
Higher density strategies: living under a park
One Planet Business Centre
Jingdezhen Ceramic Centre and the urban solar farm
BedZED
Conclusions
