"With the engineering building for Leicester University we had to build a new institution of a scientific/educational type. The tower at the front contains the fixed non-expanding accommodation and is intended to be a grouping of identifiable volumes of accommodation, i.e. vertical shafts which are for lifts and staircases, wedge-shaped volumes which are lecture theaters, etc. The back of the building is considered as a shed, within which there can be continuous re-equipping and adjustment of spaces. The total building should read as a conjunction of fixed specific activities and of a variable changing situation, ... "
J. Stirling "Anti-structure", a slide talk by J. Stirling at Bologna University
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