Reflection on week 8 lecture

The week 8 lecture was on "life after people", looking at what would happen to the human built environment 100 years after humans cease to exist. The brief for experiment 2 was outlined and the three buildings we will be using introduced. We will be looking at how different materials collapse, breakdown and decay. Some interesting slides were shown of Priyat, the town that was abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 and also of Hashima Island, Japan a coal mining facility, which has now been abandoned for 40 years.