In Memoriam: Winchester Repeating Arms Factory
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In Memoriam: Winchester Repeating Arms Factory
The demolition of a structure, especially in an urban area, can be a violent and destructive act for a neighborhood that collectively associates memories with a space as the removal constitutes an erasure of a landmark in a collective community map. This project attempts to study a building’s end of life, and to develop a curation of decay in order to ritualize the lifecycle of a structure and enshrine th4e memories associated with a community’s past and present. Urban change is inevitable as cities are organisms that regenerate at much faster rates; but can there be a way to homnr the process and curate its decay? This project begins to design a building’s funeral in order to remediate the intense trauma that can be associated with a building’s demolition in a neighborhood. The Winchester Repeating Arms Factory in New Haven was chosen as a hypothetical subject due to its imminent demolition with the next few years.
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