Peak Oil

Today in Theory Hour we watched a film on Peak Oil. Peak Oil is the idea that oil will reach its peak by year 1970 and that 50% of all oil will already be used by year 2000. The film was mostly about Cuba and how their way of life changed when their oil supply was taken away. They went for years on nothing, oil was used in their factories to make food and power their buildings and was also used to fuel thier cars. When the oil was taken away they began to ride bikes to work and everyone lost at least twenty pounds in a year. They began to grow organic foods and used oxen to plow their fields. They also began using compost to renew the soil when it becomes unable to use anymore. Farmers were the wealthiest group of people in the entire country and owned land and animals. They also began land contracting, where farmers would be given a piece of land without having to pay taxes as long as they grew organic foods.

Critique Issues

The issues that we talked about in critique were: scale, focus, visualization, craft, and joinery. The projects that we observed and were able to talk about showed many different forms of these issues. There were some that used great focus on the twigs, craft of their project, and many different ways of joinery. My project allows you to focus on the twigs by using the brighter yellow paper to outline the twigs, scale by using a smaller cylinder that does not take away from the roundness of the twigs, and joinery by using the twigs to hold the cylinder together and holes to keep the twigs in place. I used a different form of craft, though. From the outside of the cylinder, the twigs look sporattic, but on the inside there is pattern that the twigs make up. The sporattic twigs on the outside make you want to know more about what the twigs are doing and it draws you to the inside where the twigs make-up a certain form.

AIA 2030

When I listened to the Lecture about sustainability, I realized that are so many more things that killing our planet than just cars and factories. There is carbon everywhere, which I never thought about before. There is carbon in our buildings, which we go into to get away from the harmful carbon that is coming from our cars, when actually we can not really escape it. I thought that the building of carbon free buildings was amazing, I did not know that it could even be done. The whole project opened my eyes to how we can change the negative effects in every way. AIA 2030 is a nation wide project to eliminate the use of carbon by the year 2030. Which is only 20 years away. This project can really change how this planet is functioning by using the earths resources, such as: water, the sun, and wind. They will be able to run elevators without carbon, run cars without carbon, and power buildings without carbon. We all need to get involved in this project so that we can live on this planet many years past 2030.