250 word thingo

Using the optimism/ pessimism thinking tool

I feel very optimistic about architecture in the future. It seems to be focusing on improving the sustainability of our buildings because of quickly approaching global warming. The future looks positive when you look at the different forms architecture we are seeing.

The direction of architecture looks like its heading in a optimistic direction because of the focus on sustainability. We are developing different ways of constructing buildings and we are developing new materials to build them with. Nader khalili was dedicated to supplying 3 world countries with affordable housing he developed ceramic houses that are extremely cheap to build and are very sustainable.

There are new building materials on the market and I am very optimistic about them as well. They are stronger lighter and better than the materials that they are similar too. There are also other amazing developments like light transmitting concrete.

Our lifestyles that influence the changes in architecture I feel fairly optimistic about because they are influencing architecture into more sustainable forms. The only thing I am pessimistic about is the future of comfort in our homes. In a lot of designs comfort has been discarded for energy efficiency and sustainability. This is good and bad will our lives in the future be more sustainable but at what cost??

But this is all predictions.

Anything is possible in the future the only thing you’re held back by is your imagination.

Response to Sub Question

Our sub-question is How will architecture change in the future-I believe that architecture will change, it will change all the time, especially with the introduction of new materials such as syndecrete and transluscient concrete, the materials used currently will not satisfy our architecual needs of the future.

Concerning materials, they are making newer and better materials every year, such as the transluscent concretem which is a concrete but with a difference, you can see a black shape of the person behind it. Also material such as syndecrete, which is lighter and tougher than any normal materials, though it is expensive to obtain this material soon if it is mass produced the price will go down. There are also blocks of concrete which can be lit up, these are quite big steps in architecture, I will say now that I believe that there will not be an immediate change anytime soon, but there will be.

Anther main factor is that our lifestyle will change, we will probably be living a lot differently in the future than we are now, though there may not be an immediate change it is likely to happen.

Also people may be requiring more in their houses, therefore the design of their house will have to change.

At the end of today we just started our presentation and carty finished off his response to the basic question, overall quite a productive day.

our group has been working hard the last few days but before that we had some... difficulties (carty playing games). Joe, Prent and I are about 5 minutes from finishing our responses to our basic questions but Pat ... well thats another story all together.. ................................................................................ so yeah

Basic Question

Today we all practically finished our basic questions, it was not very challenging for me because my question was answered in my raw information, all I had to do was transfer the information into a brochure type format

basic question

Today i finally finished the response to my basic question...
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driscoll

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