Beirut Blast: Design For Failure

The #Beirut Grain Silos illustrate the need to #DesignForFailure.

Modern engineers try design for #IdiotProof their design. But the universe always comes up with a better idiot. The Engineers who built modern Lebanon did not worry about fools; rather than “fool-proofing” their #design, they built FOR #failure.

Just like #FormDefinesFunction, a structure’s ultimate failure determines design.