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Let me tell you a bit more about Stewart Brand. He gets everywhere. This is another of his ideas, a diagram from his book How Buildings Learn.
He’s describing a house, and how you shouldn’t think of it as just a structure which is built forever and then filled with all the stuff you have in it. He talks about a house as a continuously living thing, with multiple layers of change, all changing at different speeds. So you have a structure which moves very slowly but a space plan which can change at a decade level and the stuff in it changes week by week.
Brand’s a smart cookie, so let’s dig into this a bit. I’ll show you an example of what he’s talking about.