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Patterns of transience emerge around new material economies, spurred by adaptation to changing social and ecological dynamics. Heterogeneous co-occurring layers of social strata negotiate proximities and visibilities; experiences emerge challenging neuroplasticity. Material Plasticity grafting onto existing structures of production, deployment and building stock to form thickened facades, layers of interaction. A drop-in, adaptive architectural product grafts onto and complicates existing modernist facades.