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Extreme bioclimatic environments necessitate extra efforts to create a habitable environment. We argue that local cultures in deserts and drylands have pioneered ecological material systems to create artificially inhabitable climate enclosures. As a result, a similar approach enhanced by technological progress in developing ecological materials for deserts and drylands is required to continue those efforts toward a sustainable future of net-zero desert and dryland architecture. The material selection criteria for this publication are discussed here, and the foresight of a tool to think new eco-efficient materials.
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Ottmann, D.A. (2022). Climate Matters: Ecological Materials for Deserts and Drylands. In: Ecological Building Materials for Deserts and Drylands. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95456-7_5
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