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OUTSET
From Cornerstone to Worktop and Back Again<\/strong><\/a>
<\/span>Laura Linsi, Maria Helena Luiga, Roland Reemaa<\/strong><\/p>\n

CASE STUDY
15 Clerkenwell Close<\/a><\/span>
Groupwork<\/strong><\/p>\n

CASE STUDY
62 Rue Oberkampf<\/a><\/span>
Barrault Pressacco<\/strong><\/p>\n

CASE STUDY
Plan-les-Ouates<\/a><\/span>
Atelier Arciplein, Perraudin Architects<\/strong><\/p>\n

IN PRACTICE
Moss Doesn’t Grow…<\/a><\/span>
Helena Keskk\u00fcla<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESSAY
Houses of Time. Carbonate rock in Estonian buildings<\/a><\/span>
Helle Perens<\/strong><\/p>\n

PROJECTS
Limestone in 21st-century Estonian Buildings<\/a><\/span>
Johan Tali, Merle Karro-Kalberg, Hanna Karits, Priit \u00d5unapuu, Siiri Vallner<\/strong><\/p>\n

EDUCATION
Working Stone<\/a><\/span>
Juliet Haysom, Thomas Randall-Page<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESSAY
On Stone’s Shoulders<\/a><\/span>
Carl-Dag Lige<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESSAY
Linnahall is Sedimenting<\/a><\/span>
Madli Kaljuste<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESSAY
Sedimentary Flows and Creative Geologies<\/a><\/span>
Galaad Van Daele<\/strong><\/p>\n

IN PRACTICE
Sisyphos and Portland Stone<\/a><\/span>
Amaya Hernandez<\/strong><\/p>\n

REVISIT
Is Don Quijote at It Again?<\/a><\/span>
Rein Einasto, Hubert Matve<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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STONE<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Much can be inferred from what has been written in stone. Limestone, for instance, contains data on climate change. According to geologist Rein Einasto<\/strong> (p. 104), geologists can use limestone to infer that we are currently going through the greatest transition in the history of life, one in which our ways of thinking and living must change radically in order for us to survive as a species. Thinking through stone opens up a perspective that extends over hundreds of millions of years, in which geological materials are not mere static resources to be appropriated, but participants in terrestrial cycles. Architect Galaad Van Daele<\/strong>, who sees in this an opportunity of collaboration between mineral, organic and cultural life, writes: \u2018We architects need a geological literacy.\u2019 (p. 86)<\/p>\n

Too expensive, too labour-intensive, too time-consuming. Building with stone seems either outdated or strictly a luxury thing, and yet, a new Stone Age is looming in West Europe\u2014building stone\u2019s wide availability and low levels of embodied carbon make it suitable for use in load-bearing structures of social housing, as well as experimenting with wholly new kinds of structures (p. 6). The limestone deposits of Estonia likewise contain some layers that are marble-strength and weather-proof. Could our local limestone become a widely used building material once again?<\/p>\n

To be sure, extracting natural stone has a footprint, but after extraction, it does not require much processing to be ready for use in construction. This sets stone apart from energy-intensive concrete, clay brick and steel production. Geologist Helle Perens<\/strong> emphasises that instead of worrying about the environmental impact of quarrying building stone, we should worry that there are plans for the near future to extract senseless amounts of it, including very high-quality stone, only to crush it into aggregate (p. 34). We tend to be careless with stone\u2014both with the stone still in the ground and stone in the walls of disused buildings. Architect Madli Kaljuste<\/strong> takes a look at one of such buildings that hides traces of 400-million-years-old life in its walls (p. 78). Thinking through stone opens up a fresh perspective on construction culture (and the lack thereof), availability of local building materials and their untapped (economic) potential, and, ultimately, on building truly long-lasting buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editor-in-chief Laura Linsi<\/p>\n

March, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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