The foundations of current urban and architectural planning are strict definitions and requirements for the specific spatial program and related typologies. These are based on a clear allocation of use to a room and place.
In the future, this interdependency will dissolve towards a time-related use of space. The result must be a rethinking of the development and handling of built areas towards mixed and flexible user cases and typologies. Buildings or areas are no longer defined and planned according to a specific program and thus a typology but are designated as spaces that have to accommodate different uses at different times. Floor plan typologies and planning specifications must be adapted. They are no longer assigned to a singular spatial program but are designed openly for a wide variety of uses. Space must be able to do more. "Form follows function" becomes "Form follows potential".
This requires the simplification of incompatible and strict planning requirements and regulations towards a flexible space allowance that offers temporary usage adjustments.
The ideal of flowing space is reinterpreted and expanded to include the dimension of time. The temporal dimension allows sufficient space for the material to transit into new states of aggregation. It shifts the focus from the purely atmospheric concept of flowing space to the existential definition of space through its actual use.