Assemble Your Own SFAI 2/2, originally uploaded by bryanboyer

Flexibility in buildings is a question of patience. All buildings adjust or die, the question is how quickly and how gracefully they adapt. To a large degree, flexibility within buildings has been solved by technical flooring and the dropped ceiling.
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I would like to make the case for Paffard Keating-Clay’s San Francisco Art Institute as a key example of the synthesis possible between a strong figure and enduring adaptability.
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By acknowledging and accepting the fundamental impatience of the building’s occupants, these columns unify the abstract logic of the building, its actual structure, and the implications of the building’s future into one material thing.

Flexibility in buildings is a question of patience, analysis by Bryan Boyer, Adriel Mesznik, and Chris Parlato of Paffard Keating Clay’s SFAI for a GSD studio by Wes Jones.