Final Video - Building Life Cycle

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Narrative

This narrative is inspired by the concept of "Building Life Cycle". The story presents a series of various processes of "Building Life Cycle" starting from obtaining raw materials, transforming, construction, deterioration, demolition, deconstruction, recycle, and reconstruction. In the video, "Lego" is used as a representative of building as it can perform in all processes of the life cycle of building in reality. The mixture of childhood and adulthood world will assist all audiences to easily understand the concept of Building Life Cycle.

At the beginning of the video, the real construction site with children's voice playing inside the container is presented to provoke the curiosity of the audiences. The camera follows the children's voice and closes up at the container's door. The door is opened to reveal the inside container. There will be a number of different-sized Lego representing raw building materials, as well as the Lego men which are the main characters that represent real life.

The building processes start. Lego men become alive and run the representative world inside the container. The construction of Lego acts like the construction of real building. At the beginning, the Lego construction site and real construction site are still distinguishable. The scenes are cut between these two sites. After the Lego men transport building materials and components out of the container, the two construction sites are merged into a story. The Lego men and builders cooperate as teamwork. The Lego men supply some materials and Lego components such as bricks, windows, and doors to the builders. The real materials and Lego materials are built together into the building.

As time goes by, the construction has been completed and the building gradually becomes deteriorated. There is an earthquake and the building is demolished. The building components shatter around the place. Then, the camera zooms out to reveal the truth. The container is moved away from the construction site and the real building is reconstructed. The scenes come back to the Lego world again and end with reconstruction of the building by recycling building materials and components. The themes of “Lego Life Cycle” and “Building Life Cycle” are merged together harmoniously at the end.

Inspired Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467y1lHCcL0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxLoR9a3hU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mSqnJkWj4



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5esWw5oCJI

Inspired Images

http://www.lifecyclebuilding.org/images/lifecycle%20construction.JPG

http://www.paulvanbuuren.net/content/2007/11/20/lego-advertising/

http://www.paulvanbuuren.net/content/2007/11/20/lego-advertising/

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/10/15/lifecycle-building-challenge-pavilion-in-the-park/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/asthmatic/141304696/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennkarlsen/2424385081/

http://www.greenwala.com/profiles/26-Justine-Burt/blog/949-Building-Transformers-EPA-s-Deconstruction-Design-Challenge

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anacoboy/140267971/sizes/l/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mn_francis/36609474/sizes/l/

http://media.photobucket.com/image/reuse%20building/freeyerself/doordept2.jpg

http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=4879

http://www.adamchew.com/print/lifecycle.html

Rough Visual Outline

Synopsis: The Life Cycle of Building

This article focuses on the concept of "sustainability", which is currently an important issue in building construction around the world. It highlights the building construction processes in relation to environmental and health aspects. These processes aiming at making "Sustainable Building" are developed and employed mainly in many countries and particular in the Netherlands.

In an introductory part of the article, it states that knowledge on "Sustainable Building" is highly important and started a long time ago. However, the concept has been changing as time has changed. In the past, sustainable building involved the concept of survival. Sustainability was mainly about how to protect building against weather circumstances and dangerous animals. In this way, sustainability was fulfilled by producing and exploiting durable building materials. However, the process of producing and transporting raw materials (especially from a source far away) normally resulted in pollution and terrible effects to environment. This effect of the building activities was called the Sick Building Syndrome. As a result, the new concept of "Sustainable Building" has been developed in order to change human behaviour towards more balanced building circumstances. The concept of sustainability is known as "the Life Cycle of Building".

The Life Cycle of Building is rather complicated since it involves its technical structure in time and space as well as its social and economical importance (e.g. unemployment of large numbers of workers in the building and construction industry.). The keys to successful sustainable building and a Sustainable Development are co-operation, collaboration and teamwork and a proper choice of building materials such as using easy renewable materials or highly advanced materials in the smallest quantities and dimensions.

However, since the entire building process normally consumes energy and emits pollution, the solution to this problem is reuse or recycle. The Life Cycle of materials and products is applied for all kinds of proposes, including building. Therefore, partial demolition, renewal or refurbishment and the reuse of building materials are processes of sustainable development aiming at reducing the consumption of energy and minimizing the pollution, the world problems.

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Schmid, P 1999, The Life Cycle of Building, accessed on 23 September 2009, http://www.ba.itc.cnr.it/sksb/PAPERS/Key02.pdf.