Redux: Designs that Reveal, Recycle, and Redefine

by Jennifer Roberts

Redux offers a host of solutions for creating a green home with recycled, reused, and environmentally healthy materials, whether remodeling, redecorating, or building from the ground up. This book combines extensive salvage use with the larger goal of efficiency and environmentalism--and the results are simply stunning.

Genres: Architecture

160 pages, Hardcover

First published October 7, 2005

Reviews

[Bill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chock full of excellent ideas, illustrated primarily through a journalists attempt to document successful rennovation and "new construction" projects which feature strenuous re-use of existing materials.

The introduction goes to great lengths to explain the absolute necessity of recycling of building materials as well as by providing many examples of the futility of seeking out new materials when such action will only result in the likely demolition and disposal of unwanted salvage material.

Excellent for reference in thinking about salvaged material which is used in new, unconventional ways (architectural firm Leger Wanaselja opted to fashion a remote-controlled gate out of eight Volvo wagon tailgates in one of their Berkeley, CA projects).