The Japanese technique of burning wood surfaces creates a protective carbonized layer in bioarchitecture.

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, and fungi, thereby prolonging the lifespan of the wood. Yakisugi techniques were first codified in written form in the 17th and 18th centuries. But it seems Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci wrote about the protective benefits of charring wood surfaces more than 100 years earlier, according to a paper published in Zenodo, an open repository for EU funded research.

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In the hushed silence of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, among the yellowed pages of Codex Madrid II, a brief annotation has waited more than half a millennium to be understood in its astonishing prophetic significance. The hand is that of Leonardo da Vinci, the universal genius whose mirror?writing seems to shield his deepest intuitions from the

In the hushed silence of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, among the yellowed pages of Codex Madrid II, a brief annotation has waited more than half a millennium to be understood in its astonishing prophetic significance. The hand is that of Leonardo da Vinci, the universal genius whose mirror?writing seems to shield his deepest intuitions from the superficiality of time. On folio 87r, between calculations of fortifications and hydraulic sketches, Leonardo writes with surgical precision: “They will be better preserved if they are debarked and burned on the surface than in any other way.” This seemingly simple phrase is not merely a technical workshop instruction; it is the manifesto of an ontological vision of matter which, today—amid environmental crisis and the search for regenerative construction solutions—emerges as the cornerstone of a new international bioarchitecture. The rediscovery of this fragment is the result of rigorous interdisciplinary research conducted by Annalisa Di Maria, internationally renowned expert on Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance artists; Andrea da Montefeltro, molecular biologist and sculptor; and Lucica Bianchi, art historian and documentary researcher, all members of the UNESCO Club of Florence. Their study goes beyond philological recovery: it establishes a direct connection between Renaissance empiricism and the...

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Yakisugi, a Japanese technique of burning wood surfaces, creates a protective carbonized layer...

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, and fungi, thereby prolonging the lifespan of the wood. Yakisugi techniques were first codified in written form in the 17th and 18th centuries. But it seems Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci wrote about the protective benefits of charring wood surfaces more than 100 years earlier, according to…

The Japanese technique of burning wood surfaces creates a protective carbonized layer in bioarchitecture.

Bioarchitecture draws on design principles from nature to construct buildings that work in ways that help tackle climate change and reverse environmental damage.