forgot the image...lol

horrible photography and i forgot spell check. just did not want you to think that i have forgotten the project.

designing environmently...

fiber optics + concrete= a solution to global warming


energy use goes up everyday, everyone is always ready to help after the fact, lets do something before the fact, catch the problem before it blows up in our face. lets have the energy to prevent instead of promoting awareness after the fact.
fiber optics and concrete together can make huge differences in energy use. by catching natural light on the exterior of a building 'as a skin', then distrubuting the sunlight to other areas in the building via the cables. this provides for photosythates in plants, without photosythetats plants can not live, more plants equal better environment.

more to come...
better images, and i pushed the flex-crete too. the semester is almost over and i am looking forward to putting a lot more energy into these ideas.

global energy consumption and it's effects

global warming is here and there are things that we can do. it seems in the United States and all over the world for that matter, ( since the world's total energy consumption per capita is up 43 kgoe (kilograms of oil equivalent per person) in the last three years) that we prefer houses and space that are expensive, elaborate and high in energy. I think that houses and structures could be better by demonstrating how many and how much natural resources it can save, generate, or collect. I have been focusing on the environment lately, thinking of a concrete component that betters the environment was challenging but i think i am getting the hang of it. there is scientific evidence to support the fact that natural sunlight is the key element in photosynthesis and plants can not live without photosynthesizing. plants are the answer in our struggle with global warming. but how do we get natural sunlight to places where there are no windows?