Memory of Space


Myer’s Forest Research Center

    Serendipitous circumstances allow for a series of contextual exchanges to reconfigure, reorient, and re-establish architectural order in two seemingly polarized sites in a forest. By selectively salvaging disused materials from each site and re-purposing them for the other, a dialogue is established between two locations similar in its abstract need for contextual awareness to the site but dissimilar in its more tangible environmental and historical stratum. Through juxtaposition of materials, reversal of spatial nodes, attention to experience and natural awareness, this project engages the memory of place and questions how architecture can continue some aspects of this memory through preservation while enhancing other aspects through intervention.