As covered in the lecture as humans sustainability to us concerns to other elements such as environmental, economic, and social dimensions. If the future context were to change how would we remain sustainable?
"Sustainability is the capacity to endure."
Sustainability can be interpreted in many ways, in S.Brand’s Shearing Layers the article speaks of buildings and their layers. How buildings change over time and how significant layers remain as buildings change and adapt to service new technologies that are required in each age.
The longevity of buildings is often determined by how well they can absorb new services technology.
Above is the New York High Line project, which uses the old shut down freight rail line, which run over the streets of West Manhattan. This unused space has been envisioned as a public park. Preserving the structural “layer” whilst updating the historic site to a modern day function.
In the of the Future Scenario Project our team will use the new context in order to shape buildings which will be sustainable in that time period. Utilizing old and new technologies to ensure the growth and expansion of the Brisbane CBD.
The longevity of buildings is often determined by how well they can absorb new services technology.
- Brand, S., 1997. Shearing Layers, in How buildings learn : what happens after they’re built, London: Phoenix Illustrated. pp12-23Download PDF (1.7Mb): Shearing Layers
- The High Line. 2012. The High Line. Accessed 30 August 2012: http://www.thehighline.org.
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