Between Past and Possible | Transforming Modernist Housing

Conservation must move beyond the sterile preservation of the built form. An architectural object, especially housing, is not meant to be a museum piece. It is conceived as a living framework for collective life that invites and encourages change, adaption, and reinvention. The object offers an inherent flexibility. Thus, I argue for a conservation strategy that embraces growth, allowing the architecture to absorb newer functions that strengthen and expand its life both objectively and ideologically. Additions and modifications are not threats; they are vital acts for continuity. Through careful and responsive interventions, I propose to reinforce the public life of streets, courtyards, and open spaces which are crucial in residential neighbourhoods. In response to urban challenges, such as fragmentation and lack of connectivity, my aim is to support sensitive, resident-driven transformations that improve accessibility and respond to the community’s evolving needs. Conservation in this case is not resisting these urban issues, but harnessing them into the built form. In doing so, we allow the architecture to remain relevant, responsive, and resilient in the face of shifting urban realities. To conserve this project is to keep it alive and open through its evolution and imaginations rooted in its present that will thrive in future.

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