Additional Resources
A list of resources from other organizations.
Guides, Reports, & Publications
HEMP + LIME + CONCRETE
Hemp + Lime: Examining the Feasibility of Building with Hemp and Lime in the USA| Healthy Materials Lab
Designing With Hemp + Lime: Open Source Detailing for Architects and Designers | Healthy Materials Lab
Low Carbon Concrete Technologies: Understanding and Implementation | Resource Efficiency Collective
Lime: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started | Critical Concrete
TEXTILES
Introduction to Healthier Textiles | Healthy Materials Lab
WOOD
Linseed & Tung Oil Mix for Wood Protection | Critical Concrete
Natural Wood Protection | Critical Concrete
INSULATION
Embodied Carbon and Material Health in Insulation | Perkins & Will, Habitable
Natural Insulation - What Do You Need to Know? | Critical Concrete
Producing Mycelium Insulation | Critical Concrete
Chemical and Environmental Justice Impacts in the Life Cycle of Building Insulation | Healthy Building Network
MYCELIUM
Grow Architectural Models With Mushrooms
PLASTICS
Buildings’ Hidden Plastic Problem | Habitable
Disposable Plastic Buildings: Case Studies in K-12, Healthcare, and Affordable Housing | Perkins & Will, Habitable
CORK + CARDBOARD
Building With Cork | Critical Concrete
Producing Cardboard Insulation | Critical Concrete
DRYWALL + PAINT
PFAS in Paints | Healthy Building Network
Embodied Carbon and Material Health in Gypsum Drywall and Flooring | Perkins & Will, Habitable
EQUITY AND JUSTICE
Advancing Health and Equity Through Better Building Products | Habitable
Healthy, Climate Resilient Homes For All: Centering Housing Justice and Health Equity in Building Decarbonization | Building Energy, Equity, and Power Coalition
Building for the Future | Bauhaus Earth
Material Databases
Biobased Materials | Material District
Informed Product Guidance | Habitable
Material Collections | Healthy Materials Lab
Precedent Projects
“The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are building them from hemp” | Grist
Symbiocene Mycelium Installation
RESPIRE: Passive, Responsive, Variable Porosity Building Skins
The Voice of Urban Nature Pavilion | Overtreders W
Flat House | Practice Architecture
Pierre Chevet Sport Centre | Lemoal Lemoal
Geraardsbergen House | Martens Van Caimere Architecten
Elisa and the 11 Swans Pavilion | Studio AX
Tigín Tiny Homes | Common Knowledge
Clay Fields | Riches Hawley Mikhail
Books
The Regenerative Materials Movement: Dispatches from Practitioners, Researchers, and Advocates by The International Living Future Institute
Booming Bamboo: The (Re)Discovery of a Sustainable Material With Endless Possibilities by Pablo van der Lugt
Growing Architecture: How to Design and Build With Trees by Daniel Schönle and Ferdinand Ludwig
Building With Paper: Architecture and Construction by Ulrich Knaack, Rebecca Bach, Samuel Schabel
Bioprotopia: Designing the Built Environment with Living Organisms by Ruth Morrow, Ben Bridgens, Louise Mackenzie
Tomorrow’s Timber: Towards the Next Building Revolution by Pablo van der Lugt
Biodesign: Nature + Science + Creativity by William Myers
Material Revolution: Sustainable and Multi-Purpose Materials for Design and Architecture by Sascha Peters
Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future by Kate Franklin and Caroline Till
Cultivated Building Materials: Industrialized Natural Resources for Architecture and Construction by Dirk E. Hebel
Toward Re-Entanglement: A Charter for the City and the Earth by Philipp Misselwitz, Alan Organschi