"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

ISO 12006 with an amusement park

I’ve been requested to share some graphics on my approach for trying to explain ISO 12006 without getting into specific classification systems (Uniclass, Uniformat, Masterformat and all that jazz). I found that the amusement park analogy kind of works: the complex is the park, the entity is Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, the space is her chamber and so on.

I understand it might not be the same without me talking about them, but that goes for pretty much all my lessons. Click to enlarge.

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