An Exploration of Memory
This project explores an approach to the White Cliffs of Dover, situated at the edge of the country and the edge of Europe, and qualities of the architectural edge – the line of distinction between two different conditions. Aldo Rossi’s work stimulated a reflection on architectural memory: people having different memories of the same place, but also plans of buildings as memories of other plans through time. My childhood home, a typical terraced house with front and back rooms, is remembered as a Land Mark, broken into pieces and dispersed along the coast. The final project remembers and translates the plan of Lincoln’s Inn as the basis for a new language school. The present is part of the process of continuity and change, an entanglement of past and future.
