I suppose it makes sense just as a matter of principle,
Well if you let the builders make an exception for this bridge now, why not the library they're building next week? Even if there's no possibility of anyone with a disability using the bridge this should be a point over which there should be no possibility of surrender. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
The same point goes for "green" design, that, for yet, isn't really seen as "architecture" but more as "painted over" techniques in many cases! Sustainable schools contests, here, are too often a "collage" of what is supposed to be "green" techniques, as a windmill, plus a wooden facade, plus solar cells, plus, plus, plus... And the final building isn't even well oriented or the wood comes from 2000 km! (In Guadeloupe, the wood comes from Guyana, goes to "Le Havre" (france) then goes back to Guadeloupe...!!!)
Sustainability is more about the people... And that part is too often forgotten, because you need to work with associations or local people, while using the latest fashionable technique will get you in a famed magazine, even if the space isn't really usable and/or re-usable in time for other functions...
This is a wonderful world <music> "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
