This research-led design is an exploration into how we proceed in choosing what we preserve and alter within interiors.
Working with heritage listed sites that are in a state of transition, archiving is used as a methodology to notate temporal and ephemeral traces, residues and mnemonic physiognomy within their interiors.
By speculatively (re)organising these notations, I aim to connect the site’s past to it’s present and the potentialities of its future and to highlight and re-frame what is already present.
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Material explorations begin to investigate archiving as a process, through techniques of maintenance, preservation and ritualistic preparations of a space. Subverting a practice traditionally used within an institutional framework, what can archiving as a process do when brought into contact with the ephemeral and temporal moments often overlooked within interior situations?
Through in situ explorations, processes such as diagramming, surface tracing, material mapping and citation begin to unpack the vagueness of these often-inaccessible interiors.
The archive acts as a memorial to the site.
The process of archiving allows us to highlight and identify ephemeral conditions within heritage interiors. This practice presents us with the possibility to interrogate the value of an extant interior and the potential of a site’s future use.