Brand goes on to describe the skin as mutable.
The skin of a building cannot resist periodical shedding of old skin for a new one. Additionally, the mutability of the skin seems to be accelerating more so presently with buildings than it has in the past. For the purposes of this POE, skin includes all the material covering the interior and exterior of Barney-Davis Hall. In this chapter, we evaluate items such as the windows, interior paint, carpet, floors, doors, ceiling tiles, skylights, and insulation from Barney-Davis Hall. The following section consists of a discussion on the findings about these items.