Incremental House

According to the United Nations Environment and International Energy Agency study on accompanying energy consumption, 39% of total global carbon emissions are linked to building construction. While approximately 72% of this segment occurs over the course of a building’s operable lifespan, the 28% associated with embodied processes of construction offers a significant opportunity to address carbon emissions on the front end of construction. Carbon sequestration will play an increasingly important role in addressing atmospheric carbon in the timespans required to avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change. While much attention has been directed recently to bio-based methods of construction such as mass-timber, there are an expanding array of harvested materials that have great potential to sequester carbon, reduce reliance upon petrochemicals, while offering distinct material/structural/spatial configurations.1

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.112.10

Volume Editors
Germane Barnes & Blair Satterfield

ISBN
978-1-944214-45-6