How Buildings Learn¶
Brand, S. (1994). How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built.
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Mechanisms¶
- Modular Architecture with Stable Interfaces
- The guiding real-world picture is shearing layers — a building endures because its fast layers (space plan, furnishings) can change without disturbing its slow ones (structure, site), and a system designed the same way survives change the same way.
This sourceBrand’s shearing-layers model distinguishes faster-changing building layers such as space plan and furnishings from slower layers such as structure and site.
- The guiding real-world picture is shearing layers — a building endures because its fast layers (space plan, furnishings) can change without disturbing its slow ones (structure, site), and a system designed the same way survives change the same way.
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