Initial Research
Throughout week one I began to develop my position in regards to my first idea. We were asked to choose a reading from a curated list and I chose 'Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know' by Joseph Romm. My intention with this choice was to garner a better insight into the science behind climate change and to hopefully come to a point where I could better
understand
affects
our
how
climate.
architecture
This
book
directly
became
a
great basis for me and my ideas on thesis formation. Throughout, in the form of question and answer segments, the book explores in particular, the role carbon has in changing weather patterns throughout the world.
This
idea
thoughts
brought on
me
back
embodied
energy
to
my
and
original how
the
vast majority of this energy is released into our
atmosphere
in
the
form
of
carbon.
It
was this which led me to question whether I wished to continue in the direction which I had set out for myself earlier on in the week. It was here that I decided to take a step backwards
from
the
architecture
of
future
power stations to fully explore the ideas which had led me to my original thesis idea; in the hopes that a project would organically grow from my research instead of prescribing one for myself from the outset.
6.