Week 3 - Lecture

SUSTAINABILITY

     Murray Lane - Tutor (Giving Lecture)

principal - universal and never changing
context - site specific and ever changing

Principles
     -Fundemental principle
          -sub-principle (E.g. Sustainability)
              -Pattern
+Context     -Architectural outcome

Selfish architecture - reasons without sufficient universal appeal (merely i want....)
Generous architecture - Based on universal principles and well reasoned context

Architectural outcome
Basic needs
     food, water, shelter, energy

Time scales
     year, decade, lifetime, forever

Space scales
     object, building, city, region, globe


How much land is needed for basic self sufficiency?


I can understand what he is saying. The triple bottom line just doesn't really cut it, because it is so much more complicated than that

Do we need to live more locally?

Yes. I think we need to export less and buy from closer to home