Fracture Critical

places.designobserver.com — The collapse of fracture-critical designs like the I-35W bridge warns us that we need to replace such structures with designs that are less connected, less efficient, more resilient. But we’ll need to change more than the design of our bridges. Fracture-critical design epitomizes all the postwar systems vulnerable to sudden failure. The bridge’s collapse warns us that future catastrophic events will surely occur. The I-35W Bridge is both metaphor and omen.

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