The Development and Use of Low Embodied Energy Materials in a Carbon Conscious Construction Sector

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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


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