Contemporary Design Essay Project Plan
Essay Title and
Question
How have the issue of climate change and sustainability affected
contemporary architecture?
Why I will answer
this question
I watched a video and a TED talk with architect Bjarke
Ingels in which he states the biggest problem facing the next generation of
architects is climate change and sustainability. I found his ideas of ‘Hedonistic
Sustainability’, to be particularly interesting. This idea questions the misconception
that sustainability means sacrifice. Hedonistic Sustainability is defined as “sustainability
that improves the quality of life and human enjoyment”. I will question Hedonistic
sustainability examining whether sustainability is a moral burden and how much,
if any, we have to sacrifice to achieve hedonistic sustainability in a design.
Bjarke Ingles talks about architects having to design an ecosystem and shows
his Danish Pavillion design as an example of how we can achieve hedonistic
sustainability. Global warming and climate change are the biggest problems we
face in the world, they are not limited to designers and they are serious
problems that the world faces as a whole right now. Because of these reasons,
it is important to examine climate change and understand how we can overcome
it.
Key research areas
Evironmental
Design/ Environmentally friendly designs
Hedonistic
Sustainability
Climate
Change: why is it an issue for designers
History
of green architecture
Problems
with green architecture
Examples
of architecture that embrace hedonistic sustainability
Current
Laws/ legislations regarding design and climate change
Project Timetable
Date
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Work
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31st October
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Begin research into key research areas and collecting information.
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7th November
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Continue collecting research, recording it all on blog.
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14th November
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Begin to plan essay structure and continue collecting research on
blog.
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21st November
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Begin writing first draft using contact time when possible
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28th November
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Complete first draft, use contact time for improvements to essay.
Continue recording all on-going research to blog.
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5th December
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Start making amendments to essay for final hand in.
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12th December
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Have all research recorded on blog and final essay completed
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