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<blockquote data-quote="gribble" data-source="post: 6450953" data-attributes="member: 12430">I don't think it's as black &amp; white as you're making it out to be. Not all buildings are 100% &quot;functional&quot; or 100% &quot;luxury&quot; - otherwise all castles in the real world (from the same period at least) would have an identical layout as once you've found the ideal &quot;functional&quot; formula there would be no reason for variation. The reality is they are different because of different desires on the part of the person who sponsored their construction.Do you own a house? That's a building which isn't entirely &quot;functional&quot; or entirely &quot;luxury&quot;. There are functional issues (ensuring it provides adequate shelter, storage, optimal access corridors, adequately lit and heated, etc.) and &quot;luxury&quot; issues (indoor/outdoor flow, placement of non-structural walls, placement of doors and windows, placement of powerpoints, paint or wallpaper, etc.). Each &quot;functional&quot; concern has the potential to impact on &quot;luxury&quot; concerns - I may not know the technically best way to implement all the functional concerns, but I'm the one who has to live in the end product, so I want to ensure that it meets my needs. If I'm away with work for a week, and I come back and find something not to my liking, I'll definitely be asking the builder/sparky/plumber to change what he's done to meet my needs, unless he can give me a damn good reason why he can't (and IME, usually the reason boils down to &quot;it was faster/cheaper to do it that way&quot; in the absence of other instruction).And the impact will be much greater in a setting without the communication conveniences of the modern world, where the builder can just call me, or email me a picture of the plans/photos/etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gribble, post: 6450953, member: 12430"] I don't think it's as black & white as you're making it out to be. Not all buildings are 100% "functional" or 100% "luxury" - otherwise all castles in the real world (from the same period at least) would have an identical layout as once you've found the ideal "functional" formula there would be no reason for variation. The reality is they are different because of different desires on the part of the person who sponsored their construction. Do you own a house? That's a building which isn't entirely "functional" or entirely "luxury". There are functional issues (ensuring it provides adequate shelter, storage, optimal access corridors, adequately lit and heated, etc.) and "luxury" issues (indoor/outdoor flow, placement of non-structural walls, placement of doors and windows, placement of powerpoints, paint or wallpaper, etc.). Each "functional" concern has the potential to impact on "luxury" concerns - I may not know the technically best way to implement all the functional concerns, but I'm the one who has to live in the end product, so I want to ensure that it meets my needs. If I'm away with work for a week, and I come back and find something not to my liking, I'll definitely be asking the builder/sparky/plumber to change what he's done to meet my needs, unless he can give me a damn good reason why he can't (and IME, usually the reason boils down to "it was faster/cheaper to do it that way" in the absence of other instruction). And the impact will be much greater in a setting without the communication conveniences of the modern world, where the builder can just call me, or email me a picture of the plans/photos/etc. [/QUOTE]

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