Built to Wear

The reason we do not build a wooden house that lasts as long as a durable masonry castle is that we simply don’t overbuild (built to wear as opposed to built to last). 

The second reason is that we build houses according to context. 

Context - physical environment, culture, climate, economic (particularly financial ability), and other subject matter that is related to the house owner. 

We do not live that “long”, so why do we need to overbuild our house to last for a century that we don’t need, that we will not be able to live in, and will not be able to control over the use of it? 

On a side note, progression is always characterized by change. 

Even if you were to build your house to last that long, you cannot ensure that there will be no changes to the house from one generation to another. 

Let alone the other tenant who buys your house later and bulldozes it back into flat land and starts building their concrete and glass box on top of the land.

16/4/2019