The major part of the project will always be the team and the methodological framework. These are what will make the project unique and pave the way for architects in the material world. The challenge will be maintaining the architect/designer in the project and keeping the playfulness for materials in a majority-engineering environment. This way of approaching the work is what will keep the research pioneering and this point of view is important because it adds the context of buildings, people and aesthetics into the research discussion, allowing for a material development that looks at more and takes the strengths from all disciplines and curates them.
The next stage in the research is to look into combing the waste streams, together at the percentages that were deemed optimum from the initial tests. Whilst the optimum mix design is being researched, tests will be conducted into growth and aesthetic experiments.
The reason research into new lower carbon-building materials such as this is so important is explained below by Blanchard;
“Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.” (Blanchard, T., 2007, p. 28) [21].
To morally look the other way while concrete is still one of the world’s most carbon intensive practices would be obscene; every piece of research that can increase the green credentials of the concrete industry is a step in the right direction. The greatest threat is the belief that someone else will save the planet. Everyone can make a difference and it starts with a small change.
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