the six 's's of stewart brand

the first thing our tutor said to us was that the six 's's of stewart brand were incredibly important to understand and in order to achieve flexibility, these would have to be kept separate.


[i] site
[ii] structure
[iii] skin
[iv] services
[v] space plan
[vi] stuff


keeping these as individual elements will increase flexibility of a building/space, for example; if the structure of the building is incorporated within the skin, to change one element (skin), both elements (skin and structure) will have to be changed.


moral of the story:


think in layers!


you can watch a series of videos on stewart brands 's's (how buildings learn) here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8639555925486210852