But it was the interior layout that was most clever. This house lacks none of the comforts associated with middle-class housing, yet by simply renaming rooms, and functionally redesigning living spaces, it lives like a big house yet has the cooling needs of a small one. But if design for energy-efficiency is obvious, design for waste reduction is far less so. Producing anything means dramatic human intervention. People who produce like to think that their products will last forever.
Durability is also a certain sign of quality.
Both the commandments of 'reduce' and 'reuse' imply products that last. But mortality is the great design imperative of natural creation. Products created by humans are NOT exempt. Just as humans create by intervening in the natural order, so they are required to design an end to their creation's life. Design for disassembly is nothing more than the planned mortality of human creation.