ABSTRACT
Design aspects missed in predesign planning relate to various facets of flexibility: growth, change, adaptability, resilience, and redundancy, whether planning for a building, interior, urban area, landscape, spaceship, or other kinds of accommodation. The predesign planner must discover if a facility has a potential for development, determining what particular areas and manners of growth are most likely to occur and include strategies acceptable to the client for accommodating it. Specifically, predesign planning for primary and secondary education is changing profoundly toward flexibility as teaching and learning relate more to individual and group problem solving. The absence of such a consideration is a glaring problem in many traditional predesign plans and may result in added future costs to clients when they discover that new growth is difficult to accommodate given the location or configuration of existing facilities. The issue of change is rarely articulated in planning for residential design.
