"If modernity requires that we replace rather than repair, this will have costly ecologically unsound consequences. So we should work instead with materials that are easy to maintain, easy to convert and easy to repaint. We should offer people the opportunity of remodeling their homes."
We need a progressive formula that as its variables change, continually and constantly rebalances itself. Designing buildings that can be 'remodeled' easily by their new occupants means that we no longer require the intrusive and expensive building process to occur. By designing for and implementing an overall system that will function for eternity we remove the need to replace. The spaces that occur (deliberately) can breathe and evolve as the people that exist there do. Architects should eventually work themselves out of a job…
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