TY - JOUR
T1 - Green waste to green architecture
T2 - optimizing urban tree systems for renewable construction material supply chains
AU - Dickinson, Susannah
AU - Dimond, Kirk
AU - Li, Shujuan
N1 - Funding Information: We would like to thank the College of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona who supported this work with a Grassroots Research Grant. This enabled the time to collaborate on inter-disciplinary work with the following additional University of Arizona colleagues: Dr. Win Burleson, Dr. Christopher Castro, Dr. Kamel Didan, Dr. Aletheia Ida, Dr. Hee-Jeong Kim and Dr. Barret G. Potter and to hire a graduate research assistant, James Hesla, who all contributed in some way to this work. All images were created by MS.Arch students Sadia Tasnim and Asif Zeshan. The wood assembly image is from Tayler Forsberg’s 2022 Capstone work. Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2023/9
Y1 - 2023/9
N2 - In this article, we share the prospect of using the lifecycle and growth advantages of urban trees as construction materials beyond the existing, more typical green infrastructure uses. Much work has been completed on green infrastructure, but the potential tie to the material and construction industry is completely underdeveloped. It is this symbiosis between our environmental green infrastructure systems, natural and designed, and our social systems, the decision-making, design, materiality and fabrication of our built environment in more sustainable directions which is the goal of this research. Technological advances now allow urban wastes from tree maintenance to be locally processed as viable construction materials in new ways and that if optimized in coordination with other environmental and social systems and efforts, we will see functional and environmental improvements in our urban environments with reductions in both imported materials, and exported wastes and improved energy levels and carbon sequestering.
AB - In this article, we share the prospect of using the lifecycle and growth advantages of urban trees as construction materials beyond the existing, more typical green infrastructure uses. Much work has been completed on green infrastructure, but the potential tie to the material and construction industry is completely underdeveloped. It is this symbiosis between our environmental green infrastructure systems, natural and designed, and our social systems, the decision-making, design, materiality and fabrication of our built environment in more sustainable directions which is the goal of this research. Technological advances now allow urban wastes from tree maintenance to be locally processed as viable construction materials in new ways and that if optimized in coordination with other environmental and social systems and efforts, we will see functional and environmental improvements in our urban environments with reductions in both imported materials, and exported wastes and improved energy levels and carbon sequestering.
KW - Circular economy
KW - Multiscalar modeling
KW - Socio-environmental systems
KW - Sustainability
KW - Waste to resources
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U2 - 10.1007/s42532-023-00151-z
DO - 10.1007/s42532-023-00151-z
M3 - Article
SN - 2524-5279
VL - 5
SP - 263
EP - 273
JO - Socio-Ecological Practice Research
JF - Socio-Ecological Practice Research
IS - 3
ER -