Fragments of Archiving | Master’s Thesis by Tasos Theodorakakis

What is the nature and role of historic sites in cities today?
How could we re-use them?
What part of their nature should we preserve or forget?

The work explores the above concerns through a compositional exercise at such a palimpsestuous place in the City of London; in the public garden of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, a park in a ruin that stands as what’s been left of the former St. Dunstan-in-the-East Church. The intention here is not simply to preserve the existing, nor to oppose the new layer to the old. The thesis attends to explore how this layer could become a tool for both preserving such an environment and at the same time encouraging further transformation in the future. It is more like a ‘Progressive Preservation’.

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