Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Week 10: MashUp Article


Plataforma SINC. (2015, April 16). New software analyses the effect of climate change on buildings from the cloud. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 13, 2015 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150416084208.htm

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. (2015, April 29). Wood-derived foam materials.ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 13, 2015 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150429085145.htm

Feargus O'Sullivan. "What’s Behind Europe’s Grandiose Rebuilding?" 08 May 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed 12 May 2015. <http://www.archdaily.com/?p=628618>
Researchers have rekindled long-term fascination with foam materials made of petrochemical plastics. It has begun to, become the medium of choice for exploring a city’s roots and a people’s past and is an alternative, which analyses for the entire life cycle of a building. But they aren't very climate-friendly and large companies trying to explore a city’s roots and a people’s past produce architecture with these backward-looking materials. Is there a growing nostalgia pervading aspects such as energy consumption, materials and social repercussions? Wood is a novel tool, which can be used to draw a line under the recent past.  It is not harmful to the environment and is also the way to the future. Climate-friendly construction lies in how newspaper columns and petitions replace the conventional civic virtues of governments and developers.

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