DURABILITY IN A RESILIENT DESIGN APPROACH

The relationship between architecture and time can be studied from different points of view, for example, concerning physical durability (maintenance, interchangeability), functional temporality (transformability, technological flexibility), aesthetic obsolescence (changes in style and fashion). Today, it seems to be a central topic in relation to the emerging concept of resilience. Considering durability as one of the design variables means being able to evaluate the architecture as an adaptable organism that responds to changing environmental needs. After discussing the topic of time in the culture of sustainable design, the text describes what declinations this topic can assume in relation to the advent of the concept of resilience, applied to architectural design and the present experimentations of Design for Disassembly.