Materializing a Memory

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Materializing a Memory

Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2018

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title: Materializing a Memory

creator: Ashley Marchesseault

subject: Architecture and time; Ruins, Modern; Buildings, Remodeling for other use; Factories, Maine, Lewiston; Mixed-use developments, Maine, Lewiston, Designs and plans; Wentworth Design Excellence Award winner (2018)

description: The permanent nature of architecture cannot keep up with the ever-evolving nature of the human race. Buildings are designed to last a very long time, and they should. It is inevitable that buildings become abandoned because their intended use no longer meets the needs of the community it serves. Preservationists are exacerbating the issue of permanence by perpetually paralyzing buildings that fall out of use. Preserving a memory does not need to be a means to an end. Embracing the passage of time avoids this artificial halt of time. There is a beauty in the authenticity of experiencing a ruined space for what it is. Careful intervention within these ruins can frame a sequence of experiences that celebrate the interaction between person and place, deterioration and growth, and old and new. Living in, on, and with the existing, accepting it as the past and evolving it for the future, provides the user access to the story of the space that lives on.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

date: 2018

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: eng

rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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