Week 05 Reflection

This week I worked at a scale much smaller

than that which I would be used to. I found

this to be very interesting as I took the week to look at factors which affect the ways in which we tackle providing infrastructure in areas of high urban growth. To juxtapose our patterns of growth with those of other major cities points to differing views on land ownership and preferred housing typologies.

I hope to use this information as a vehicle for experimenting with forms of low/no embodied energy construction in an attempt to illustrate the positive change we can have on the current predictions for the future of the environment.

I plan on building on this information in the coming week through the testing of precedent studies. My aim is to research a number of residential structures which use low embodied

energy construction methods and to draw each of their typical makeups in order to juxtapose this against the conventional building studying I completed in week three.