Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Tipping and I'm really looking forward to learning with you today about our spaces through drawing and painting.

We're going to do lots of thinking, talking and exploring together in this lesson.

So shall we get started? Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to identify key features of sustainable buildings.

Before we start, I would like to introduce you to some keywords.

We'll be using these keywords during the lesson, so it might be a good idea to write these words down.

The key words we'll be using today are sustainability, eco-friendly.

I'm going to say those words again, and I would like you to repeat them after me.

Sustainability, eco-friendly.

Good job.

Now let's think in more detail about what these keywords mean by taking a look at their definitions.

Sustainability means capable of continuing or of being kept over time.

Eco-friendly is something that is designed to have little or no damaging effect on the environment.

Pause the video here to make a note of these two keywords, and when you're ready to continue, press play.

Here are two more keywords for us to use today.

The first is texture, and the next is natural material.

I'll say those again and I'd like you to repeat them after me.

Texture, natural material.

Good job.

Now, texture is the feel or appearance of a surface, and natural material is something that comes from nature and has not been made by humans.

So pause the video here to make a note of these two keywords, and when you're ready to continue, press play.

These are the learning cycles that we'll be working through together in today's lesson.

What makes a building sustainable, and designing an eco-friendly building.

In the first learning cycle, we're going to explore what makes a building sustainable.

Sustainability means taking care of our world so it stays healthy for a long time.

It is making sure we don't use up all the resources, so people, animals, and plants have what they need in the future.

We can help to be sustainable by caring for nature, planting trees and looking after animals.

By recycling, using things again instead of throwing them away.

Saving energy, turning off lights when we don't need them.

And saving water.

Turning off the tap when it's not in use.

So those are just some of the ways we can help to be sustainable.

Eco-friendly design features make buildings more sustainable and help to create better ways of life without harming the environment and resources for the future.

Now creating sustainable cities and communities is one of the sustainable development goals.

These goals help us to remember that everyone must work together to make the world a better place.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Sustainability is making sure we don't use up all of the world's resources.

Is this statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that's true, you are absolutely right and you can help by planting trees and looking after animals.

Can you see any eco-friendly design features in this building? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What could you see? Anything that was eco-friendly? Well, Izzy is also admiring the eco-friendly design features of this unique building.

She says, "I really like how this building is covered in greenery." Can you see all those different plants there? When designing buildings, architects consider how to help the planet by including eco-friendly design features such as wind turbines, green roofs, solar panels, and sustainable materials.

So we could see those in that unique building before, wind turbines, green roofs, solar panels, and sustainable materials.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which of these images shows a wind turbine? A, B, or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think, and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said A, you're absolutely right.

Well done.

These students are researching eco-friendly design features of buildings, taking a look at green roofs, those sustainable materials, having a look at solar panels and wind turbines.

Now here's what they found out.

So from the solar panels, they found out that it's eco-friendly because they soak up the sunlight and turn it into electricity.

The feature of green roofs, they're eco-friendly because they help keep buildings cool, make the air cleaner, and they give little animals like bees and butterflies a home.

Sustainable materials, they're eco-friendly because you can build new things by reusing materials like wood, metal or plastic.

And finally, wind turbines, they catch the wind which powers electricity.

So they found out how each feature is eco-friendly.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which eco-friendly design feature helps keep buildings cool and make the air cleaner? Solar panels, green roofs or wind turbines? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said green roofs, you're absolutely right.

These help keep buildings cool, make the air cleaner, and even give animals like bees and butterflies a nice home.

Jun is thinking about sustainable materials he knows to include in his building design.

So he's mentioned greenery and some reused wood and even reused metal.

What other sustainable materials can you think of? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you come up with? What other sustainable materials could Jun use? Well, bamboo is a natural material that grows quickly.

It is strong like wood, but much lighter, so builders can use it to make houses and bridges.

And bamboo also helps keep the air clean.

Cork.

Cork comes from the bark of a tree, so it is a natural material.

It is light and bouncy, so it helps keep buildings warm.

It also stops noise from getting in, making homes nice and quiet.

Stone.

Stone is a natural material that lasts a very long time.

It doesn't need to be replaced often, so it saves energy and materials, and some people build houses with big stone walls to keep them strong and safe from storms. Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

What is strong like wood, but much lighter? So what's that missing word there? Bamboo, metal or greenery? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said bamboo, you're absolutely right.

Bamboo can be used to make houses and bridges.

Artists and designers use pencil techniques to create textures that look like real materials.

So where can you see this texture on the building? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think.

Take a look at that image and press play when you're ready to continue.

Where could you see this texture? That's right.

Could you see it on the greenery there, dangling down from the roof? Margaret Pries is an example of an artist who creates architectural drawings of buildings.

She mostly draws in black and white using pencils and ink to show all the little details in cities and construction sites.

Pries uses different lines and shading to make her buildings look realistic.

She also shows textures by using special drawing techniques like drawing lots of tiny dots and lines to represent different materials.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Margaret Pries uses different lines and shading to make her buildings look realistic.

Is this statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said that's true, you're absolutely right.

She also shows textures by using special drawing techniques like drawing lots of tiny dots and lines to represent different materials.

Artists can use various lines to create the textures they see.

Those could be wavy lines, straight lines, dashes, or dots.

So I'm gonna create a greenery texture with a pencil.

So here are my drawings.

You can experiment with straight and wiggly lines to create different textures.

So you have a go now at creating greenery texture with a pencil.

Pause the video here and give yourself time to do that and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that? Well Jun says, "Moving the different lines closer and further away from each other makes them lighter and darker." Did you find that too? Now let's have a go at creating a stone texture with a pencil.

You start off by creating the basic shapes of the stones and then shade in between the shapes you see in that example there.

So have a go at creating that stone texture with a pencil.

Pause a video here and give yourself enough time to do that and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that? Well, like Jun, did you press down harder to make the shading darker and not press down as hard to make sure the shading was lighter? Well done for having a go at trying to create that stone texture with a pencil.

This now brings us to our first learning task.

Using a pencil, I'd like you to experiment with creating textures for three of these sustainable materials.

Greenery, reclaimed wood, bamboo, cork and stone.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to experiment with creating textures for three of these sustainable materials.

So just choose three and use pencil to do that and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that? Well, you may have experimented creating different textures like this.

So maybe your drawings for greenery look like this, or maybe you tried to draw some wood or the bamboo.

Maybe you tried the texture of cork or stone.

Well done for having a go at experimenting, creating those different textures of these sustainable materials.

We're now going to move into the second part of our lesson where we're going to take a look at designing an eco-friendly building.

Jun is thinking of more ways to make this building eco-friendly.

He says, "The main structure of this building has been made using reclaimed metal.

It was once a container for shipping goods." So can you see these shipping containers here? They would be all at a port waiting to be put onto a boat to be shipped around the world with lots of different goods inside.

So one of those, or a couple of those, has been used to create this building.

When designing buildings, architects consider how to help the planet by including eco-friendly design features.

What other eco-friendly features could Jun include? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? What eco-friendly features could be included? Well, Jun added more eco-friendly features to the design of the building, like this.

Can you see what he's added? So we've got the green roof, the wind turbine, and some solar panels.

There're some good eco-friendly features to be added to this design of the building.

There are many architects that consider sustainability when designing buildings.

Bjarke Ingles designs buildings with plants and gardens so cities stay fresh and full of nature.

One of his buildings looks like a big hill so people can walk up and play on the roof.

Vo Trong Nghia is known for designing buildings that work well with nature.

He uses a lot of bamboo plants and open spaces to make sure his buildings stay cool and comfortable without needing too much air conditioning.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Vo Trong Nghia is known for designing buildings that work well with light, nature or people? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think about how you would finish this sentence.

Press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said nature, you're absolutely right.

They use lots of bamboo, plants and open spaces.

Izzy is creating a design for an eco-friendly building.

Izzy says, "I am inspired by Bjarke Ingles' building, that looks like a hill, so I have designed my roof to slope downwards." When designing a building, architects first draw the basic shapes of the building.

Izzy says, "I remember that using a ruler helps me to draw straight lines." They then sketch out any main features.

So you can see Izzy says, "I used a light pencil grip to sketch out my design." Can you see she's included a wind turbine, she's included reclaimed wood and she's included some doors.

They finally add further details like textures and other features.

So you can see here some greenery on the roof, some that's dangling down.

You can see that we've got a texture like cork on the front.

Here we've got some reclaimed wood.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

When designing a building, architects first draw the of the building.

Is the missing word basic shapes, details or textures? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think.

Press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said basic shapes, you're absolutely right.

It's important to draw the basic shapes because that's a great place to start when designing.

Architects often annotate and add further sketches to their designs to give the builders more information.

So they sometimes include a detailed view of specific areas too.

So the solar panels are tilted to face the sunlight, the doorframe is decorated with recycled bottle tops.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Architects often annotate and add further sketches to their designs to give more information.

To give artists more information, to give builders more information, to give public more information? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said it's to give the builders more information, you're absolutely right.

It helps the builders to understand how the building should be built.

This brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to design your own eco-friendly building, and you could include natural materials or reused materials.

So we've got a green roof, solar panels, wind turbines in the features.

We've got reclaimed wood, reclaimed metal, stone, cork and greenery in the sustainable materials.

Now try adding texture using different pencil techniques.

So here's some of those examples there of the different textures you can create with your pencil.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to design your own eco-friendly building and press play when you're ready to continue.

So that was the first part of your learning task.

I'd now like you to annotate your eco-friendly building.

So consider creating a detailed view of specific areas and explaining extra information through notes.

Now here are some sentence starters to help you annotate your design.

This is a wind turbine which makes.

The solar panels catch.

The green roof is covered in.

This wood was used before for.

Cork is used because it comes from.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to annotate your design of your eco-friendly building and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, you might have designed an eco-friendly building that looks like this.

Jun says, "I can see different textures of sustainable materials in this design drawing." Can you see the greenery, the wood, the stone and the cork? So maybe your drawing looks a bit like this.

So well done for having a go at designing that eco-friendly building.

Now, looking at the annotations, you might have considered explaining extra information and creating a detailed view of specific areas like here.

So can you see in these circles, we've almost got a zoomed in section that shows that close detail and it tells us a little bit about why the solar panels catch the sunlight and how that turns it into energy, and that the doorframe is decorated with recycled bottle tops.

So we know why your building is eco-friendly.

Well done for having a go at annotating your design.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about sustainable architecture.

When designing buildings, architects consider how to help the planet by including eco-friendly design features.

Architects use pencil techniques to create textures that look like real materials.

And there are many architects that consider sustainability when designing buildings.

Architects often annotate and add more sketches to their designs to explain them further.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson today.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.