Lecture Week 8..

This week's lecture had a really interesting take on the way we treat sustainability and what it actually is. It really has become a bit of a ridiculous buzz word that people are willing to use without the full weight of its meaning behind it.

To be sustainable, it has to be able to keep going indefinitely, and that's definitely not the type of systems we currently see. Greening isn't always sustainable. It's made me think about making sure I can completely justify the decisions I make about my design.

Important thinks to think about in my design are:

• Embodied energy
• Construction
• Maintenance
• Transport
• Disassembly
• Recyclability

 We build things with the wrong lifespans in mind and with the wrong mindset to begin with. 

This pretty accurately represents the path things can take. Designing sustainably is hard, it's a huge challenge but I want to try and find ways to achieve it.

I really liked the idea of how ephemeral and adaptable architecture can be without even expecting it. Maybe I don't need to over-design the systems and places where people live, maybe it develops in a much more organic way.