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My first semesters work highlighted the importance of worker within Merthyr Tydfil, from its industrial past to its current declining employment market. The brief highlighted the importance of improving our current relationship with the built and natural environment through the integration of nature into our cityscapes and industry. Moving past the idea of a building that isn’t burden on the environment that it’s in but a building that improves it. This idea dictated the second semester work, resulting in a recycling facility that benefited the surrounding community by creating jobs throughout the labour market, regenerate a brownfield site, reintroducing native habitats and constructed using low embodied energy materials. The proposal aimed to benefit the local and national environment.