ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on observing and working with different varieties of design frameworks, and armatures that can directly structure the making of buildings at varied scales through a sequential process of transformation. Thematic design recognizes additional constraints: It first seeks to observe the living fabric of everyday environment, its rich underlying legacy of architectural, constructional, territorial, sociocultural and historical structures and how they continue to evolve. From large-scale territory down to architectural detailing, the physical, systemic and/or operational transitions where systems, configurations and parts come together locate the bounds of autonomous units of potential transformation. Within each building, the boundaries, types of connections and degree of separation that transitional spatial connectors establish at every level of built environment ultimately determine whether individual forms, systems and networks can freely transform and adapt to changing uses, specifications, times and urban conditions.
