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

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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.


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