Frame and Generic Space

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Frame and Generic Space is written by Bernard Leupen and published by 010 Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9064505985 (ISBN 10) and 9789064505980 (ISBN 13).

The average lifespan of a house is somewhere around 100 years. During that time it will see many mutations in household composition and related spatial rituals. Designers are therefore faced with the task of giving form to something that is constantly subject to change. Many studies into flexibility focus on the changeable, on movable partitions and variation in the internal layout. The present study takes not the changeable but the permanent as its departure-point. The permanent--i.e. the more durable component of the house or building--constitutes the frame within which change can take place, while the frame defines the generic space, the space in which change can occur.