Week 06 Reflection

I found my research this week into the implementation of a circular economy in realised built projects to be very beneficial in garnering an understanding of how this process works in the real world and how, going forward, I could potentially use these processes in different ways during the design

process.

This work has also helped me to illustrate to others more clearly how a circular economy can be implemented in construction and how this approach is not just a concept but something which is being realised in projects the world over.

During my tutorial at the end of week six it was suggested that I now take this information and relate it to the Irish context to develop a location specific concept for low embodied energy construction. It was also suggested that I begin to design in some way, not particularly to be tied down to a site or even typology but to design in terms of material in order to test their ability to act in design.

I decided to take this advice as the running force of the following week in order to look at materials more critically in relation to an Irish context.