Thesis Break: Emergent Technologies Potentials for Sustainable Building

Since Friday last week until yesterday, I spent most of my time doing research about emergent technologies and its potentials for sustainable building. It was a presentation that my boss had been presenting in public conventions and will present today at the 3rd Sustainable Building Technology Conference. He asked the four of us, his staffs, to do some research and make the presentation.

I find it interesting and I enjoyed doing the presentation. Some may think (as at least one of my co-workers do) that it's no longer part of our scope as intern architects, doing science research and making presentations. But do we really want to spend all of those hours that the board requires us to meet before taking the board exam, CADing /Sketchuping and visiting the site construction? Maybe for those whose goal is merely to pass the board, the answer is yes.

But let's try to fit the puzzle pieces together so we can see the bigger picture. Just because you are an architect doesn't mean everything you do has to be only about one thing, architecture. It doesn't mean you should not learn about the other fields. It's a very very big world and there's a vast knowledge out there that will never run out. Don't close your mind to that.

Also, Prezi is cool.

You can view the presentation here:
http://prezi.com/xuag7i_t4zfw/emergent-technologies-potentials-for-sustainable-building/