Week One -Learner Contract Meeting and Tutorial
We
began
Contract'
a
task
to
complete
this
was
a
booklet
of
a
'Learner
Week one ended with both a meeting concerning
questions
our learner contracts and a 1:1 tutorial. These
which sought to garner an understanding of
meetings
where
final
mode of redefining what I was thinking in
year. I found that completing this task really
terms of thesis. Many points which sparked my
got me thinking about the ways in which I
interest were discussed, such as the possibility
have approached work to date and also how I
of resource mapping during a project's design
could go about improving this. It also helped
stage. This resource mapping would help to
as a way to organise my thoughts about how
pinpoint potential materials and construction
I could tackle the year ahead by pinpointing
methods
my areas of interest both architecturally and
the
outside of the realm of design.
embodied energy.
I was then able to reflect on my affinity for
I was advised to go about a process of trial
the use of timber in design and my application
and error and not to tie myself down to a
of the material in a number of my previous
particular building typology straight away but
projects. This is a vein of research which, as
instead to test a number of concepts against
I reflected upon, I really felt I would like to
my
continue with throughout the year as it plays
before coming to a definitive design project.
a large part in the drive for the use of more
This really helped me initially to slow down
environmentally friendly construction materials.
my thinking process and allow my research to
we
felt
we
stood
coming
into
were
very
which
structure
theory
of
beneficial
may
in
a
low
inform
way
to
the
which
embodied
me
design
involves
energy
inform the work that I would produce.
14.
as
a
of less
design