The community and the world are affected by net-zero goals. My intended audience consists of building professionals. The individuals in charge of how a building functions and is planned to be net-zero carbon are some of the major characteristics of building professionals. In response to my composition, I want them to understand that it is critical and beneficial that houses and buildings be constructed in being net-zero carbon, and that it is an essential lever for promoting ambitious climate action. Simply expressed, Net Zero Carbon indicates that a project’s entire life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions should be zero or less. Scholarly articles with statistics/facts and a schematic of how a house should be fundamentally planned are the kind of genres that would make my ideas more accessible and appealing to my audience. I will use rhetorical strategies of logos to appeal to logic and reason, such as proving considerable cutbacks in emissions consistent with a 1.5°C route, as well as the permanent removal of any leftover greenhouse gases, will be required. Building professionals should support with this answer by designing a net-zero carbon building.

The topic I’ve chosen to explore is zero net carbon. The term “net zero” refers to achieving a balance between greenhouse gas emissions and removal from the atmosphere. “How can we attain net zero carbon?” will be my first research question. I’d want to highlight the word “we” because I believe it encompasses everyone in today’s world. This topic arose because I feel that anybody can contribute to preventing climate change, and that net carbon is present everywhere we walk, and I’m curious how it relates to my major, architecture. We’ll need big thinkers, inventors, academics, and policymakers to devise answers as we progress toward a more sustainable civilization. It’s a massive undertaking that will necessitate bold steps beginning now. The goal is to achieve net zero by 2050. Countries must, however, show how they will get there. Efforts to achieve net-zero emissions must be accompanied by adaptation and resilience measures, as well as the mobilization of climate finance for developing nations. My audience would be citizens of every country as our energy use at home, at work, and on the go contributes to our “carbon footprint.” I also want to branch out towards building professionals again because it’s also a key component of attaining efficient, zero-carbon building performance while lowering future investments in electric grid infrastructure, which is a high priority if we’re going to fulfill the 2050 targets.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/how-to-build-zero-carbon-buildings/

https://www.nytimes.com/guides/year-of-living-better/how-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint

https://www.oneclicklca.com/designing-net-zero-carbon-buildings-article/

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/carbon-emissions-net-zero-global-warming-climate-change

https://www.c2es.org/category/climate-solutions/reducing-your-carbon-footprint/

According to the IPCC, net emissions must be reduced to zero in order to stabilize global temperatures. Any scenario that does not involve a reduction to zero, according to the research, will fail to prevent climate change. Because even little changes in the amount of CO2, methane, and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere cause the Earth to react so strongly, emissions of these gases must be reduced until the entire system is returned to balance. All man-made greenhouse gases must be removed from the atmosphere through reduction efforts after natural and manufactured sinks, bringing the Earth’s net climatic balance to zero. Humanity would be carbon neutral in this manner, and global temperatures would stabilize.

Heat waves, droughts, catastrophic flooding, and wildfires are shattering world records and inflicting devastation across Europe, North America, China, and India, which account for 58 percent of global CO2 emissions. This interests me since architects and designers play such an important and distinct role in developing and influencing the built environment across the world. Right now, they have the choice of designing and building to a zero-carbon standard. Building operations account for approximately 40% of total global CO2 emissions. If the world wants to stay below the 1.5 degree Celsius carbon limit set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, we must set an example and decrease CO2 emissions in the built environment by 65 percent by 2030, with zero emissions by 2040.

I’d want to learn more about zero-carbon design. Architects, engineers, and other building industry professionals continue to follow current code standards. All new structures, major restorations, and developments should be planned to use no onsite fossil fuels (gas, oil, or propane) and be fully powered by on-site and/or new off-site renewable energy. As a consequence, more renewables will be able to assist decarbonize the power business and, as a result, the present building stock. Because of the creative and construction community, we now have the knowledge, standards, techniques, and technology to build zero-carbon buildings in all climates across the world.

LionHeart, a spoken word poet, has spent three years studying the impact of architecture on our mental health. He is credible because I think that the way our environment is built influences how we feel. We spend an estimated 80-90 percent of our time indoors. I feel that one of the most powerful aspects of architecture is its long-term impact on people and their actions. It has the ability to mold our personalities, excellent lighting has a beneficial impact on a person’s growth, and furniture and materials have the ability to affect a person’s development.

Designers/architects should build environments in a way that benefits people, which is the issue that LionHeart is responding to. He describes how “they” changed everything inward facing so people didn’t seem like part of the wilder community in Kentish Town, London, his former neighborhood. He believes it’s screwed up that architects build a location for people to feel at home, but then isolate them so they don’t feel part of the community. He walks us around his area and points out his low-ceilinged bedroom, explaining that it didn’t help him deal with his depression and anxiety at home. Studies reveal that students who have the highest floor to ceiling height learn more and allow their brain to be more productive than those who have the lowest ceiling height. He had to create his own place out of his small backyard shed, and he explains that having that secure space allowed him to disassociate himself from where he grew up. He wants us to understand that tranquil settings, such as a vast waterscape, are almost like a refuge. LionHeart states that the understanding of size, color, texture, light, aesthetics, and compositions or effects are telltale indicators of whether or not someone recognized that we spend 90% of our lives inside, where architecture’s impacts on our brains are accountable.

LionHeart is quite serious when it comes to the well-being of our brains as a result of architecture. Higher suicide rates and almost 9 million British residents living in social isolation existed long before COVID, according to LionHeart, and he believes that one of the reasons might be architectural decisions. At the end of the film, he takes us to the Barbican Centre and claims that the architectural decisions were made to enhance our emotional well-being. The terraces were designed to provide an almost silent atmosphere, so you can’t hear the vehicles or traffic outside. He wants us to see the connections and understand that this isn’t about architectural rebellion, but rather about the mental health of our clientele.

My name is Kristina Gozar , and she/her is my preferred pronoun. The major I intend to pursue is architecture.

One aspect of this course that excites me is the themes I will be writing about. I prefer to write in a variety of styles and about a wide range of topics. I’m excited to write about topics that are outside of my comfort zone in this course. One thing I’m concerned about with this class is a shortage of words to write with. I’ve heard that you write a lot more in college than you think. It never occurred to me that they may have meant tens of thousands of words. I’m not used to writing in this approach, but it does pique my interest to see how far I can go.

Knowing how to help the reader understand what they’re reading is one of the qualities of good writing, in my opinion. This implies that it must sound just as interesting as it seems. A student’s paper may be a few pages long, but the most of it could be meandering sentences that no one else would understand. It’s also crucial to write properly since poor writing might cause you and others to become confused. I enjoy reading my own work to see whether it sounds right.

For me, the easiest part of writing is figuring out how to make it flow smoothly. If I’m talking about sea turtles, for example, I wouldn’t make the following line in that paragraph about books. But, if I did, I’d say that I read a book on sea turtles thereafter, because the paragraph is primarily about sea turtles rather than books. I believe I do well in terms of language and sentence structure. In my experience, the way I utilize more complicated phrases makes my work stand out more. For me, the most difficult aspect of writing is figuring out where to begin. I find the beginning a little perplexing since you don’t know what to talk about first or when to stop going into depth about the themes, if that makes sense. In addition, I need to improve my grammar because it has always been an issue for me, and I typically have someone else check it for me.

Design and building are some genres that I plan to write in the future. I’d have to properly describe the work I accomplished, which might be quite thorough and precise. This is critical since many characteristics of a work of art can be represented through words. Being a great writer may help you grow in your career by allowing you to stand out from the crowd. If my words are as wonderful as my design, I feel it will have an influence on me as a future architect.