SIM LI MEI
MBE201072
Master in Architecture
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
simlimei@gmail.com | 016-3127233
BLD60203
Environmental Sustainable Design
Environmental Sustainable Design instill basic ecological literacy and environmental concerns through projects that involves local environment and society. It allows us to explore to the local context of climate and building practices as well as various approaches to sustainable architecture.
Assignment 01
The People & Planet Photography and reflective essay
This project introduces us to create environmental awareness and appreciation towards nature and people. We are required to capture (photographic visuals), interesting images that are concerned with people, resources, ecosystems, etc caption and present “nature” in the format artistic of a photographic journal. We need to write a reflective essay on the environmental that they have chosen to address and how the issue has effected peoples’ life on this planet.
In a group of 4, we chose the theme of Thoughtfulness,Between the grey and green. We went to FRIM, Desa Park city and more to capture related photos on the relationship of man and nature. We found out that it is only our responsibility to incorporate thoughtfulness in our development planning, to strike a balance between development and conversation, through the preservation of valuable forest reserves, amending the harms to nature, appreciate the benefits of nature bring for us and co-existence with them in our built environment. Click here to view the reflective essay on thoughtfulness and here for the photos that we submitted.
The 4 photographs taken on the theme of thoughtfulness.