Notes on Open Building (2016)

A significant literature exists addressing infrastructure, such as road networks, water, sewer, electricity and communications networks. All serve multiple users and frame conditions for use. In such large capital assets, whose design and use stretch over large territories and over long periods of time, it is entirely normal that decisions are hierarchically organized and distributed (higher level decisions frame lower level decisions, but lower levels have a measured freedom within those constraints). No single design team is responsible for the entire infrastructure system, initially and certainly not over time.

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