LECTURE 2: SITE-SCALE OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Case: Level 100 Course Intro To Built Environment, 1997-2007

Scales: Object --> Interior --> Building --> Premise --> Urban --> Regional --> Global

Example:

Object
Interior
Building

PremiseUrban

Regional
Global

Thoughts: Ideologies, Design Theories
Work: Scope of work (development, procedures)
Product: Design of physical objects to physical world
Actor: Industrial Designer-Interior Architect-Architect-Landscape Architect-Urban Designer-Planner-"Governor"('NEW WORLD ORDER')
Rule: Legal aspects of development
Site: From factories to the Internet

Global Scale
How do we look at this world?
Thoughts: Gold, Glory
Work: Design & Build
Product: Destruction
Actor: Earthling, Inhabitant of Earth, Global villager, Designer, Builder, Developer
Rule: Economics
Site: Earth

Q: Why is Earth dying?

A: The Earth is still geologically active, but billions of years from now the Earth will cool and eventually become geologically inactive. When this occurs, the magnetosphere protecting Earth's atmosphere from the solar winds will disappear, and the planet will be stripped of surface life due to the intense bombardment of ultraviolet radiation. Further off still, the sun will eventually burn out, but first enlarging, swallowing up the inner planets in heart and flame, destroying any evidence of our existence, other than far flung spacecraft and radio television signals.

source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_earth_dying

*IATROGENOCIDE: The extermination of a population in a systematic fashion through medical
error.
CANNIBALISME: Kill each other among human being