Leonardo da Vinci suggested simple wood treatments that still influence durable and sustainable building today.

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in bioarchitecture because the carbonized layer protects the wood from water, fire, insects ...

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