INTRODUCTION
What is architecture? What does the climate crisis mean to you? How can we make a change?
Resource Pack
Architecture for Change
12-14Created for school teachers and creative educators, 'Architecture for Change: Building Sustainably' is a freely avallable classroom resources for 12-year-olds link to the school curriculum and explore ways of modelling, making and learning.
Expand for a Guide to the ptogramme, Introduction Lesson and Projects: Sustainable Materials, Adaptable Architecture, Geodesic Dome Structures, Hex Component Structures, and Environmental Design
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Project 1 | Sustainable Materials
Through exploring Sarah Wigglesworth Architects' 'Straw Bale House', students develop an understanding of how and why buildings can be constructed with sustainable materials and practice their model making skills to recreate elements ot the buildings innovative design
Project 2 | Adaptable Architecture
What are the environmental benefits of adapting and reusing existing buildings? Via London's Here East and Grimshaw's Plexal Innovation Centre, students explore key architectural ideas of scale, structure and responding to a design brief