Time Matters

How to build with what is already there and for what is yet to come? An inconclusive take on architecture and Time.

Against the backdrop of climate catastrophe, resource scarcity and growing mountains of waste, the time factor is playing an increasingly important role in architecture. Topics such as circularity, the transformation of existing buildings, reuse and reparability dominate the discourse today. However, the debate is usually purely quantitative: It is about minimizing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, material consumption and waste.