Conditions of interior and exterior spaces [existing]

To display is to self-consciously make a show of something, aware of the aesthetic charge elicited by an act of revelation. An encounter is a dynamic interaction that can result in confrontation , not only between performers and spectators but also between communities and their formations of knowledge. To construct is to fabricate from disparate parts, involving a technical performance-whether it be weaving, cooking, building or digital coding.

[Performance Design]

Intervention is a process that transforms a building, the new and the old become interwined and completely dependent upon each other. Intervention is a procedure that activates the potential or repressed meaning of a specific place. It only truly works when the architectural response of the modifications draw all their cues from the existing building. The architect will regard the building as a narrative, a story to be discovered and retold and, through a process of uncovering, clarification and interpretation will reveal and reactivate the place. The original building provides the impetus for change; the architect's localised and highly specific reading of the place will dictate the appropriate moves. In order to impose a degree of control or order, the building may need to be simplified, thus producing a new way of looking at or understanding it. The analysis and reading of the original building can often be as destructive as it is constructive; the architect will strip away, remove, clarify, undo in order to reveal new or hidden meanings.

Interventions are rarely function-led. The form of the new building is dictated by the form of the original building. Form follows form! The building determines how it is to be reused, the position of the new spaces, how they are to relate to one another and their size and scale, is already imbued within it. The distinctive qualities of the building are explored, the story is read, and it is altered, reshaped and retold and often irretrievably changed. New or hidden meanings are revealed, the building becomes endowed with significance often greater than the value of the new use : intervention can be seen as the activation of the place.

[ rereadings by Graeme Brooker and Sally Stone]

Duration : Time or temporality + Change

"duration entails [...] the continual elaboration of the new, the openness of things [including life] to what befalls them. This is what time is if it is anything at all: [...] the indeterminate, the unfolding and the emergence of the new"

[Grosz, E. Architecture from the outside]

Duration = betweenness / becoming / difference

"the concept of difference is another mode of formulating questions of becoming, futurity [or duration or time], betweenness [...] difference is [...] the rendering of space and time as fragmented, transformable, interpenetrated, beyond any fixed formulation"

[Grosz, E. Architecture from the outside]

Becoming is change, dynamism, movement as a result of durational force or temporality

"space, like time, is emergence and eruption, orientated [...] to event, to movement or action [...] This leads one to conceptualize space as [...] a moment of becoming [...] a space of change, which changes with time"

[Grosz, E. Architecture from the outside]

"the in-between is the only space of movement, of development or becoming it is the very site for the contestation of the many binaries and dualisms that dominate Western knowledge [...] the space of the inbetween is a space of becoming"
[Grosz, E. Architecture from the outside]