| To alter the contingencies of a building is to alter its character and story. With aging, architecture becomes a space of duality, an extent of reality, the physical space, and the unreality, the mental space. Humans easily form connections and attachments to their surroundings due to closely comparable traits. The human mind sees in architecture what it sees in the human body. Together, these observations form stories and memories as historical recording of time.;When the physicality of the existing is altered through time's deterioration processes, so is its psychological realm. Subsequently, modification of the existing will lead to an architectural form of dementia. The pathology of the circumstances is progressive loss of psychological connection, memory lost and cultural confusion. The challenge in adapting existing buildings is finding the point of feasibility between architecture viewed as `ruin-ed' and architecture as the storyteller. |
