The community and the customers should dictate the requirements for school facilities. We under estimate the abilities, enthusiasm and new thinking which lie in the suburbs. A school which does not provide for the needs of its community will not be successful. In many situations, change in design is imperceptible. Such changes in buildings mean that the last design is modified in a minor way in order to cater more appropriately for educational requirements in those designs which follow.
Imperceptible changes perpetuate existing philosophies, existing equipment and existing techniques.
In other situations change can be incremental. It can be initiated in order to achieve a particular set of outcomes. This may occur when curriculum change happens and a different methodology is needed in order to implement that curriculum. Such changes then become translated into changed building designs, and include the provision of appropriate technology in subject areas when major curriculum change has not necessarily occurred. The equipment used to deliver that curriculum is more relevant to current practice than to past procedures and contributes to a case of incremental creep.