Week 11 - Lecture Summary

This week in the lecture, we looked at the destruction of buildings both by nature and by man. One of the most interesting case studies we looked at was the Christchurch earthquake. As the Christchurch area was not considered very earthquake prone, the buildings weren't built to withstand the forces of such a large earthquake. It was interesting to see how the buildings were after the earthquake and the damage that this natural disaster had made. I think for my project, I will destroy my building as if it had been in an earthquake. I will then use vegetation and other methods to show that there has been little or no human maintenance on the building since the earthquake.