Informing Home: Natural Materials' Potential to Reinvigorate Residential Architecture
Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In the United States, residential housing is largely understood as a commodity that is dependent on industrial processes. This leads to houses that lack character, have high environmental impact, and often include synthetic materials and toxins that are detrimental for the occupants. Natural and bio-based materials offer alternative construction techniques that have the potential to improve occupant health and wellbeing, reduce environmental impacts, and reintroduce craft and local connection to construction. This thesis explores the impact of natural material-based systems on spatial organization, formal expression, and construction. These ideas are tested through the design of a modest, single family home in rural New England to be constructed by self-builders.
DOI: 10.7275/vxcs-a517
Author: Chandramouli, Josephine Wermuth
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7104598234
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