Creating truly affordable buildings is a key aspect of meeting societal needs. This category contains patterns for making buildings more affordable.

Present day architectural practice cannot be said to meet the needs of humanity as a whole if the buildings and environments it creates are not affordable to a wide variety of people.

Seek to develop architectural practices that lead to affordable buildings.

Reducing Resource Usage: Very often reducing the monetary cost of a building can go hand in hand with reducing the ecological impact of a building. Patterns common to both goals can be found under the category Reduce Resource Usage