LECTURE 4&5

Wilson talks about creating data and shows us pretty info graphics about what is happening within structures and buildings. Do we really need to see how the wind flows through a city if the building is a foot shorter? Is that foot going to save our planet? In my opinion it isn’t because in order to build this short city you have to give out emissions greater than that of heat saved due to wind to just build it. Quite simply a waste of time gathering what I think is useless data.
It’s a great idea to use interactive systems to produce images of a building to navigate around and to save money on the build before hand, although surely just being a good architect would save you a lot of time. (Wilson may benefit from doing more actual work than inputting numbers into a spreadsheet, we don’t have all day Duncan.) Maybe they should work harder on improving old buildings rather than creating more mess by replacing them and use their fancy tech on the new buildings that need to be built.

This leads me into Donald’s talk about how the present ‘isn’t good enough’ that we’re constantly striving for new and creative style buildings and for new communities he’s saying F*CK THE WORLD build a better one.
I personally think you can take both ideas and combine several points. Use the idea of data and creativity to build a more sustainable structure that won’t have to be replaced in 10 years think creatively but also think practically.

They were both quite confusing, contradictive and could have almost been about the same thing, maybe it was all the fancy diagrams that leads your mind into thinking this is all just about building a nice building…something about environment…but that’s irrelevant… and you end up just thinking ‘oh its just architecture, on one hand you couldn’t give a sh*t about the world on the other you probably still wont so long as it looks good’ Did I fall asleep in the first one and wake up in the second thinking it was still the first? The much needed coffee break (didn’t even get a coffee because the line was too long) reminded me that I had not in fact fallen asleep.